Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI Foundations

Course details

In this beginner-friendly course, learn about AI, ML, and their practical applications within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Explore a comprehensive overview of the AI landscape, the fundamentals of deep learning, and the role of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) in modern computing. Learn about OCI Generative AI Services, Oracle 23ai Vector Database, and other OCI AI Services, such as vision, speech, language, and document understanding, using a structured approach that is both effective and engaging. This course prepares you to apply your new understanding of AI and ML to OCI.

Learning objectives
Describe the fundamentals of Generative AI and LLMs.
Differentiate between various machine learning and deep learning architectures.
Explore the Oracle AI stack, including infrastructure, data, ML, and AI services.
Describe OCI’s extensive AI tools portfolio and Generative AI services.
Analyze ML fundamentals, focusing on supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
Examine deep learning through convolutional and sequence models such as CNNs, RNNs, and LSTMs.
Evaluate the capabilities and applications of Generative AI models and language frameworks.
Leverage OCI AI Services, OCI ML Services, OCI Generative AI, Oracle 23ai, and Oracle Select AI.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome to AI foundations

1. AI Foundations

02 - Module introduction
03 - Introduction to AI
04 - AI - Tasks and data
05 - Demo - AI
06 - AI vs. ML vs. DL

2. Machine Learning Foundations

07 - Module introduction
08 - Introduction to machine learning
09 - Supervised learning - Regression
10 - Supervised learning - Classification
11 - Demo - Introduction to Jupyter notebooks
12 - Demo - Basic machine learning, part 1
13 - Demo - Basic machine learning, part 2
14 - Unsupervised learning
15 - Reinforcement learning

3. Deep Learning Foundations

16 - Module introduction
17 - Introduction to deep learning
18 - Deep learning models - Sequence models
19 - Deep learning models - Convolutional neural networks (CNN)
20 - Demo - Classification with multilayer perceptron

4. Generative AI and LLM Foundations

21 - Module introduction
22 - Introduction to generative AI
23 - Introduction to LLMs
24 - Transformers, part 1
25 - Transformers, part 2
26 - Prompt engineering
27 - Customize LLMs with your data

5. OCI AI Portfolio

28 - Module introduction
29 - AI services overview
30 - ML services overview
31 - AI infrastructure overview
32 - GPUs and superclusters in OCI
33 - Responsible AI
34 - Demo - Data science

6. OCI Generative AI Service

35 - Module introduction
36 - OCI generative AI
37 - Demo - OCI generative AI
38 - Vector search
39 - Select AI

7. OCI AI Services

40 - Language introduction
41 - Demo - Language
42 - Speech introduction
43 - Demo - Speech
44 - Vision introduction
45 - Demo - Vision
46 - Document understanding
47 - Demo - Document understanding
48 - Oracle AI APIs and SDKs

Conclusion

49 - Prepare for OCI AI Foundations Associate certification