AI & Machine Learning Roadmap: From Basics to Responsible AI
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From AI basics to building and securing real-world AI systems. Learn machine learning, generative AI, foundation models, responsible AI, and security — step by step.
Phase 1
Fundamentals of AI and ML
No experience needed
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Concepts & Terminologies of AI
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning (ML)
Deep learning
Generative AI overview
Practical Use Cases of AI
AI for business efficiency
Limitations of AI
Types of ML problems
AWS AI services
ML Development Lifecycle
Machine learning pipeline
Amazon SageMaker services
🎯 Goal: Understand what AI and ML are, how they work, and where they are used in the real world
Phase 2
Fundamentals of Generative AI
How Gen AI actually works
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Concepts of Generative AI
Overview of Gen AI
Core components of Gen AI
Transformer architecture
In-context learning
Multimodal & diffusion models
Gen AI use cases
Gen AI architectures
Key techniques & challenges
Capabilities & Limitations for Solving Business Problems
Capabilities of Gen AI
Limitations of Gen AI
AWS for Building Gen AI
Advantages of AWS Gen AI services
AWS infra for Gen AI applications
Pricing models for LLMs
AWS services for Gen AI apps
🎯 Goal: Understand how generative AI systems work and how to build them on AWS
Phase 3
Applications of Foundation Models
Build with pre-trained models
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Design Considerations for Applications
Selection criteria for pre-trained models
Biases in training data
Availability & compatibility
Customisation & explainability
Inference parameters
Vector databases & retrieval
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Effective Prompt Engineering Techniques
Introduction to prompts
Prompting techniques
Best practices & risk of prompt engineering
Training & Fine-Tuning Foundation Models
Key elements of training a foundation model
Fine-tuning techniques
Steps in data preparation for fine-tuning
AWS data preparation tools
Evaluating Foundation Model Performance
Deployment considerations
Evaluation metrics
Human evaluation
Integration into applications
🎯 Goal: Use, fine-tune, and evaluate foundation models to build real AI applications
Phase 4
Responsible AI
Build fair & ethical AI
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Development of Responsible AI Systems
Intro to responsible AI
Addressing bias in AI models
Ethical dataset characteristics
Ethical model selection
AWS services for monitoring & bias detection
Transparency & Explainability
Recognising the importance of transparent & explainable models
Transparency & explainability concepts
Tools & techniques for transparency
🎯 Goal: Build AI systems that are fair, transparent, explainable, and ethically sound
Phase 5
Security, Compliance & Governance
Protect and govern AI systems
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Secure AI Systems
Shared responsibility model
Identity & access management (IAM)
Identity federation
Logging & monitoring
S3 block public access
SageMaker role manager
Data encryption
Security configuration & network management
AI model security
Governance & Compliance Regulations for AI
Compliance standards & regulations
Compliance tools & AWS services
🎯 Goal: Secure, govern, and ensure compliance of AI systems in real-world deployments
Career Roles
AI/ML Engineer
ML Ops Engineer
AI Solutions Architect
AI Ethics Specialist
AI Security Engineer
Gen AI Developer
Data Scientist
Dive deep into how generative AI works — from transformer architecture to building real Gen AI applications on AWS.
Core Concepts
How Generative AI Works
The engine behind LLMs
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Overview of Gen AI
Core components
Transformer architecture
In-context learning
Multimodal models
Diffusion models
Gen AI architectures
Key techniques & challenges
🎯 Goal: Understand the inner mechanics of how generative AI systems produce content
Business Use
Gen AI for Business Problems
Apply Gen AI practically
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Gen AI use cases
Capabilities of Gen AI
Limitations of Gen AI
AI for business efficiency
🎯 Goal: Know when and how to apply Gen AI to solve real business problems
AWS Platform
Building Gen AI on AWS
Deploy with AWS services
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Advantages of AWS Gen AI services
AWS infra for Gen AI applications
Pricing models for LLMs
AWS services for Gen AI apps
Amazon SageMaker
🎯 Goal: Use AWS to build, deploy, and scale generative AI applications
Learn to select, prompt, fine-tune, and evaluate pre-trained foundation models to build powerful AI applications.
Step 1
Selecting & Designing with Foundation Models
Choose the right model
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Selection criteria for pre-trained models
Biases in training data
Availability & compatibility
Customisation & explainability
Inference parameters
Vector databases & retrieval
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
🎯 Goal: Pick and design with the right foundation model for your use case
Step 2
Prompt Engineering
Get the best from LLMs
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Introduction to prompts
Prompting techniques
Best practices of prompt engineering
Risks & limitations of prompt engineering
🎯 Goal: Write effective prompts that get accurate, reliable results from AI models
Step 3
Training & Fine-Tuning
Customise models for your needs
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Key elements of training a foundation model
Fine-tuning techniques
Steps in data preparation for fine-tuning
AWS data preparation tools
🎯 Goal: Fine-tune a foundation model on your own data for specialised tasks
Step 4
Evaluation & Deployment
Measure and ship your model
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Deployment considerations
Evaluation metrics
Human evaluation
Integration into applications
🎯 Goal: Measure model performance accurately and deploy it into production applications
Build AI systems that are fair, transparent, and ethical. Learn to detect bias, ensure explainability, and follow responsible AI principles.
Part 1
Developing Responsible AI Systems
Fairness & ethics in AI
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Intro to responsible AI
Addressing bias in AI models
Ethical dataset characteristics
Ethical model selection
AWS services for monitoring & bias detection
🎯 Goal: Identify and reduce bias in AI systems from data to deployment
Part 2
Transparency & Explainability
Make AI decisions understandable
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Why transparency matters in AI
Explainable AI (XAI) concepts
Transparency & explainability tools
Techniques for transparent models
🎯 Goal: Make AI decisions interpretable and explainable to users and stakeholders
Secure, govern, and ensure compliance of AI systems. Learn IAM, encryption, monitoring, and regulatory compliance for AI on AWS.
Part 1
Securing AI Systems
Protect your AI from threats
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Access & Identity
Shared responsibility model
Identity & access management (IAM)
Identity federation
SageMaker role manager
Data & Network Security
Data encryption
S3 block public access
Security configuration & network management
AI model security
Monitoring
Logging & monitoring
🎯 Goal: Implement end-to-end security for AI systems and data on AWS
Part 2
Governance & Compliance for AI
Meet regulations & standards
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Compliance standards & regulations for AI systems
Compliance tools & AWS services
Governance frameworks
Audit & accountability
🎯 Goal: Ensure AI systems meet legal, regulatory, and organisational governance requirements
Career Roles
AI Security Engineer
AI Compliance Analyst
Cloud AI Architect
AI Ethics & Governance Lead