AI4Science Training at UFZ 2025

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.

Slides are available online for reuse. Materials on this website and slides can be reused under the conditions of the CC-BY 4.0 license.

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