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Hugging Face Introduces New Course with Andrew Ng
Hugging Face Introduces New Course with Andrew Ng
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Hugging Face Introduces New Course with Andrew Ng

The course is designed for individuals who want to get into building AI applications using open source models.

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Key takeaways

  • Enroll in Andrew Ng's free course on open-source models with Hugging Face for AI application development.
  • Learn to utilize Hugging Face Hub to find and filter models for various tasks efficiently.
  • Develop practical skills in writing concise code using the Transformers library for diverse AI applications.
  • Create advanced projects like chatbots, language translation, and multimodal applications without extensive fine-tuning.
  • Leverage Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces for seamless sharing and cloud execution of AI applications.
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Andrew Ng has come up with a new, free, one-hour course with Hugging Face called “Open Source Models with Hugging Face” which introduces beginners to open-source models. Led by Hugging Face engineers Maria Khalusova, Marc Sun, and Younes Belkada (ML engineer at Hugging Face), the course focuses on leveraging Hugging Face Hub to find and filter open-source models based on task, rankings, and memory requirements.

Participants will learn to write concise code using the Transformers library for text, audio, image, and multimodal tasks. The course emphasises practical applications, allowing users to share their AI apps effortlessly through a user-friendly interface or API, using Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces for cloud execution.

What will you learn?

Throughout the course, attendees will gain the skills to select and employ open-source models from Hugging Face Hub for NLP, audio processing, image analysis, and multimodal tasks. 

The primary learnings include creating a chatbot capable of multi-turn conversations, language translation, document summarisation, text similarity measurement, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), audio classification without fine-tuning, audio narration generation for images, zero-shot image segmentation, visual question answering, image search, image captioning, and other multimodal applications.

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