AI4Science Training at UFZ 2025#
In this AI training for sicentists, we will learn how Generative Artificial Intelligence works, try out various AI systems, and learn how to use such systems properly. We will also dive into responsible AI usage and legal contraints.
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Program#
9:30 - 10:15 Introduction and Fundamentals
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, AI systems and language models
Application areas and limitations of AI in text generation
Prompt engineering
Prompting with large context
10:15 - 11:15 Exercises
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00 Advanced Usage
Knowledge distillation
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 13:45 Exercises
13:45 - 14:00 Coffee break
14:00 - 14:45 Responsible Use of Generative AI and Legal Framework
Data protection compliant usage
Copyright
EU AI Act
14:45 - 15:30 Exercise, Discussion and free experimentation
15:30 - 15:45 Final discussion, feedback round
Trainer#
Acknowledgement#
We acknowledge the financial support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany and by Sächsische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus in the programme Center of Excellence for AI-research “Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig”, project identification number: ScaDS.AI