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Introduction to AI
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Lesson Overview
Introduction
What happens when you hit send?
Why can't the LLM just be on my laptop?
Processors and cloud computing
GPUs vs CPUs
Activity: GPU vs CPU
Data centres
Cloud computing
AWS Career video: Amina
Activity: Local vs Cloud Computing
Data centres
How do AI prompts get to data centres?
The internet is in the ocean
What is inside a data centre?
AI data centres
What does a data centre look like?
Annual costs
Future spend plans
Costs of model training
Energy and Sustainability
Energy and water consumption
Rules for Australian data centres
Rules for American data centres
How much energy for a typical text prompt?
Activity: Benefits and costs of AI
Where are all the data centres?
Why does location matter?
Submerged data centres
Data centres in space?
Activity: Data Centre Locations
AI and Sustainability
Smaller models
Activity: AI and Sustainability Video
Types of LLMs
Who makes the LLMs?
Open source LLMs
Activity: Open source LLMs discussion
Costs of using proprietary models
Costs calculator
Local AI Models
When would you use local models?
Activity: Local or cloud models
How do we know if an AI is getting better?
Activity: Lumen Benchmarks
End of lesson quiz
Lesson 6: Behind the Scenes
Activity: AI and Sustainability Video
Instructions
Download the worksheet below for the AI and Sustainability video activity
Watch the video.
Complete the questions in the worksheet
Google Docs
PDF
Word
Source:
Equinix
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