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Our first short course with Anthropic! Building Towards Computer Use with Anthropic. This teaches you to build an LLM-based agent that uses a computer interface by generating mouse clicks and keystrokes. Computer Use is an important, emerging capability for LLMs that will let AI agents do many more tasks... than were possible before, since it lets them interact with interfaces designed for humans to use, rather than only tools that provide explicit API access. I hope you will enjoy learning about it! This course is taught by Anthropic's Head of Curriculum, Colt_Steele. You'll learn to apply image reasoning and tool use to "use" a computer as follows: a model processes an image of the screen, analyzes it to understand what's going on, and navigates the computer via mouse clicks and keystrokes. This course goes through the key building blocks, and culminates in a demo of an AI assistant that uses a web browser to search for a research paper, downloads the PDF, and finally summarizes the paper for you. In detail, you’ll: - Learn about Anthropic's family of models, when to use which one, and make API requests to Claude - Use multi-modal prompts that combine text and image content blocks, and also work with streaming responses - Improve your prompting by using prompt templates, using XML to structure prompts, and providing examples - Implement prompt caching to reduce cost and latency - Apply tool-use to build a chatbot that can call different tools to respond to queries - See all these building blocks come together in Computer Use demo Please sign up here:show more

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daniel ostertag1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Colt works for anthropic? Anyone else get started learning web dev with his course? Probably one of the first courses I ever paid for.

Fast Company1 year ago

#AI agents: from tools to teammates. Software that can act, react, and interact with both humans and other agents will transform how businesses operate—and how they should invest in technology. This @EY_US article explains more. #ad

Vincent Valentine (CEO of UnOpen.ai)1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Exciting to see such innovative courses being offered.

Robert1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Thank you! Looking forward to this one and the many to follow!

Ethan_AI Marketer for 𝕏1 year ago

@AnthropicAI this sounds like a wild ride for LLMs, lol

Anthara Fairooz1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Exciting course! Building AI agents to interact with computer interfaces is a game-changer. Can't wait to see the demos!

Nitin Panwar1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Teaching AI to navigate human interfaces instead of waiting for APIs feels like the moment we taught it to walk instead of just teleport, exciting and transformative!

RyanRejoice1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Claude Bros unit! Let's go learn how to use Claude even better.

Navigate1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Fascinating! 🤔

Cheeku Tripathi1 year ago

@AnthropicAI ability to interact with human interfaces via mouse clicks and keystrokes opens up new possibilities

icecreambar1 year ago

@AnthropicAI Hi Andrew. I took your ML class in 2013 on Coursera and wanted to give thanks. Does this course cover Anthropic’s MCP?

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139,761 views • 1 year ago

New short course: Open Source Models with Hugging Face 🤗, taught by Maria Khalusova, Marc Sun, and Younes Belkada! Hugging Face has been a game changer by letting you quickly grab any of hundreds of thousands of already-trained open source models to assemble into new applications. This course teaches you best practices for building this way, including how to search and choose among models. You’ll learn to use the Transformers library and walk through multiple models for text, audio, and image processing, including zero-shot image segmentation, zero-shot audio classification, and speech recognition. You'll also learn to use multimodal models for visual question answering, image search, and image captioning. Finally, you’ll learn how to demo what you build locally, on the cloud, or via an API using Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces. You can sign up here:

New short course: Open Source Models with Hugging Face 🤗, taught by Maria Khalusova, Marc Sun, and Younes Belkada! Hugging Face has been a game changer by letting you quickly grab any of hundreds of thousands of already-trained open source models to assemble into new applications. This course teaches you best practices for building this way, including how to search and choose among models. You’ll learn to use the Transformers library and walk through multiple models for text, audio, and image processing, including zero-shot image segmentation, zero-shot audio classification, and speech recognition. You'll also learn to use multimodal models for visual question answering, image search, and image captioning. Finally, you’ll learn how to demo what you build locally, on the cloud, or via an API using Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces. You can sign up here:

Andrew Ng

224,520 views • 2 years ago

"Introducing Multimodal Llama 3.2": As promised two weeks ago, here's the short course on Meta's latest open model! This short course is created with Meta and taught by Amit Sangani, Director of AI Partner Engineering at Meta. Meta’s Llama family of models is leading the way in open models, allowing anyone to download, customize, fine-tune, or build new applications on top of them. Learn about the vision capabilities of the Llama 3.2, and use it for image classification, prompting, tokenization, tool-calling. You'll also learn about the open-source Llama stack, which gives building blocks for many different stages of the LLM application life cycle. In detail, you’ll: - Learn what are the features of Meta's four newest models, and when to use which Llama model. - Learn best practices for multimodal prompting, with applications to advanced image reasoning, illustrated by many examples: Understanding errors on a car dashboard, adding up the total of photographed restaurant receipts, grading written math homework. - Use different roles—system, user, assistant, ipython—in the Llama 3.1 and 3.2 models and the prompt format that identifies those roles. - Understand how Llama uses the tiktoken tokenizer, and how it has expanded to a 128k vocabulary size that improves encoding efficiency and multilingual support. - Learn how to prompt Llama to call built-in and custom tools (functions) with examples for web search and solving math equations. - Learn about Llama Stack, a standardized interface for common toolchain components like fine-tuning or synthetic data generation, useful for building agentic applications. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to build out new applications with the new Llama 3.2. Thank you to Ahmad Al-Dahle, Amit Sangani, and the whole AI at Meta team AI at Meta for all the hard work on Llama 3.2 — we’re excited to make these open models even more accessible to more developers with this new course! Please sign up here!

"Introducing Multimodal Llama 3.2": As promised two weeks ago, here's the short course on Meta's latest open model! This short course is created with Meta and taught by Amit Sangani, Director of AI Partner Engineering at Meta. Meta’s Llama family of models is leading the way in open models, allowing anyone to download, customize, fine-tune, or build new applications on top of them. Learn about the vision capabilities of the Llama 3.2, and use it for image classification, prompting, tokenization, tool-calling. You'll also learn about the open-source Llama stack, which gives building blocks for many different stages of the LLM application life cycle. In detail, you’ll: - Learn what are the features of Meta's four newest models, and when to use which Llama model. - Learn best practices for multimodal prompting, with applications to advanced image reasoning, illustrated by many examples: Understanding errors on a car dashboard, adding up the total of photographed restaurant receipts, grading written math homework. - Use different roles—system, user, assistant, ipython—in the Llama 3.1 and 3.2 models and the prompt format that identifies those roles. - Understand how Llama uses the tiktoken tokenizer, and how it has expanded to a 128k vocabulary size that improves encoding efficiency and multilingual support. - Learn how to prompt Llama to call built-in and custom tools (functions) with examples for web search and solving math equations. - Learn about Llama Stack, a standardized interface for common toolchain components like fine-tuning or synthetic data generation, useful for building agentic applications. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to build out new applications with the new Llama 3.2. Thank you to Ahmad Al-Dahle, Amit Sangani, and the whole AI at Meta team AI at Meta for all the hard work on Llama 3.2 — we’re excited to make these open models even more accessible to more developers with this new course! Please sign up here!

Andrew Ng

131,606 views • 1 year ago

8/ Computer Use Are A Sadness - 🎖️Engagement Award Exploiting computer use agents using LLM security vulnerabilities for fun and profit Hijack agents that try to access your computer

8/ Computer Use Are A Sadness - 🎖️Engagement Award Exploiting computer use agents using LLM security vulnerabilities for fun and profit Hijack agents that try to access your computer

Alex Reibman 🖇️

25,040 views • 1 year ago

New short course: LLMs as Operating Systems: Agent Memory, created with Letta, and taught by its founders Charles Packer and Sarah Wooders. An LLM's input context window has limited space. Using a longer input context also costs more and results in slower processing. So, managing what's stored in this context window is important. In the innovative paper MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems, its authors (which include the instructors) proposed using an LLM agent to manage this context window. Their system uses a large persistent memory that stores everything that could be included in the input context, and an agent decides what is actually included. Take the example of building a chatbot that needs to remember what's been said earlier in a conversation (perhaps over many days of interaction with a user). As the conversation's length grows, the memory management agent will move information from the input context to a persistent searchable database; summarize information to keep relevant facts in the input context; and restore relevant conversation elements from further back in time. This allows a chatbot to keep what's currently most relevant in its input context memory to generate the next response. When I read the original MemGPT paper, I thought it was an innovative technique for handling memory for LLMs. The open-source Letta framework, which we'll use in this course, makes MemGPT easy to implement. It adds memory to your LLM agents and gives them transparent long-term memory. In detail, you’ll learn: - How to build an agent that can edit its own limited input context memory, using tools and multi-step reasoning - What is a memory hierarchy (an idea from computer operating systems, which use a cache to speed up memory access), and how these ideas apply to managing the LLM input context (where the input context window is a "cache" storing the most relevant information; and an agent decides what to move in and out of this to/from a larger persistent storage system) - How to implement multi-agent collaboration by letting different agents share blocks of memory This course will give you a sophisticated understanding of memory management for LLMs, which is important for chatbots having long conversations, and for complex agentic workflows. Please sign up here!

New short course: LLMs as Operating Systems: Agent Memory, created with Letta, and taught by its founders Charles Packer and Sarah Wooders. An LLM's input context window has limited space. Using a longer input context also costs more and results in slower processing. So, managing what's stored in this context window is important. In the innovative paper MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems, its authors (which include the instructors) proposed using an LLM agent to manage this context window. Their system uses a large persistent memory that stores everything that could be included in the input context, and an agent decides what is actually included. Take the example of building a chatbot that needs to remember what's been said earlier in a conversation (perhaps over many days of interaction with a user). As the conversation's length grows, the memory management agent will move information from the input context to a persistent searchable database; summarize information to keep relevant facts in the input context; and restore relevant conversation elements from further back in time. This allows a chatbot to keep what's currently most relevant in its input context memory to generate the next response. When I read the original MemGPT paper, I thought it was an innovative technique for handling memory for LLMs. The open-source Letta framework, which we'll use in this course, makes MemGPT easy to implement. It adds memory to your LLM agents and gives them transparent long-term memory. In detail, you’ll learn: - How to build an agent that can edit its own limited input context memory, using tools and multi-step reasoning - What is a memory hierarchy (an idea from computer operating systems, which use a cache to speed up memory access), and how these ideas apply to managing the LLM input context (where the input context window is a "cache" storing the most relevant information; and an agent decides what to move in and out of this to/from a larger persistent storage system) - How to implement multi-agent collaboration by letting different agents share blocks of memory This course will give you a sophisticated understanding of memory management for LLMs, which is important for chatbots having long conversations, and for complex agentic workflows. Please sign up here!

Andrew Ng

200,729 views • 1 year ago

New short course: Prompt Engineering with Llama 2, built in collaboration with Meta AI at Meta, and taught by Amit Sangani! Meta's Llama 2 has been game-changing for AI. Building with open source lets you control your own data, scrutinize errors, update (or not) the models as you please, and work alongside the global community advancing open models. Llama isn't a single model, it's a collection of models. In this course, you'll: - Learn the differences between different Llama 2 flavors, and when to use each. - Prompt the Llama chat models -- you'll also see how Llama's instruction tags work -- so they can help you with day-to-day tasks, like writing or summarization. - Use advanced prompting, like few-shot prompting for classification, and chain-of-thought prompting for solving logic problems. - Use specialized models in the Llama collection for specific tasks, like Code Llama to help you write, analyze, and improve code, and Llama Guard, which checks prompts and model responses for harmful content. The course also touches on how to run Llama 2 locally on your own computer. I hope you’ll take this course and try out these powerful, open models!

New short course: Prompt Engineering with Llama 2, built in collaboration with Meta AI at Meta, and taught by Amit Sangani! Meta's Llama 2 has been game-changing for AI. Building with open source lets you control your own data, scrutinize errors, update (or not) the models as you please, and work alongside the global community advancing open models. Llama isn't a single model, it's a collection of models. In this course, you'll: - Learn the differences between different Llama 2 flavors, and when to use each. - Prompt the Llama chat models -- you'll also see how Llama's instruction tags work -- so they can help you with day-to-day tasks, like writing or summarization. - Use advanced prompting, like few-shot prompting for classification, and chain-of-thought prompting for solving logic problems. - Use specialized models in the Llama collection for specific tasks, like Code Llama to help you write, analyze, and improve code, and Llama Guard, which checks prompts and model responses for harmful content. The course also touches on how to run Llama 2 locally on your own computer. I hope you’ll take this course and try out these powerful, open models!

Andrew Ng

162,798 views • 2 years ago