A fully-networked instructional lab has been set up at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with funding from the Kotak IISc AI-ML Centre. This lab will cater to the computational needs of the undergraduate students of the BTech (Mathematics and Computing) programme at IISc, including the work they will do as part of the artificial intelligence–machine learning course and other projects.
The lab was inaugurated on 23 August 2023 by Milind Nagnur, Chief Technology Officer, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KMBL) and Govindan Rangarajan, Director, IISc. Senior delegates from KMBL and IISc were present.
The lab is used to conduct two IISc UG courses, namely, ‘Data structures and algorithms’ and ‘Introduction to numerical methods’. A course was organised during September–October 2023 by KIAC on large language models, taught by Monojit Choudhury and his team from the Microsoft Corporation. The course aimed to provide students with an accelerated understanding of building practical engineering natural language processing (NLP) systems and prompt engineering using the most advanced large language models (LLMs).