Yücel Cultural Foundation's Five-Week Digital Youth Program - Join and Shape the Future!
The Yücel Cultural Foundation is organizing a special five-week digital youth program aimed at helping young people grow as active and creative individuals in the digital world! This program will allow young people to enhance their digital skills, develop creative projects, and get to know the technologies of the future.
Program Details:
Training Dates: November 1 - December 6, 2024 / Every Friday
Program Duration: 5 weeks
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Application Deadline: Monday, October 28
Application Form: https://forms.gle/FwJKNVz3nkVz7aaU7
Week 1: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Key Concepts - Çağan Kiper
What is Artificial Intelligence?: The definition, history, and current application areas of AI
What AI is Not?: Common misconceptions, LLM (Large Language Model), ML (Machine Learning), and AI distinctions
The Difference Between AI and Machine Learning: Subfields of AI, differences between machine learning and deep learning
What are Machine Learning and LLM?: What these concepts are used for and why they are important
Week 2: Generative AI - Mert Aytemiz
What is Generative AI?: Definition of Generative AI and how it works
GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) and Diffusion Models: Basic generative models used in visual and textual content production
Application Areas: Creative AI applications in fields like art, music, text, and graphics (e.g., text generation, image creation)
Creativity of AI: The contributions and impacts of creative AI on human creativity, introduction to popular generative AI tools
Week 3: What is Prompt Engineering - Ecem Şafak
Introduction to Prompt Engineering: Definition of prompt engineering, key concepts, and its role in AI models
Analyzing Prompt Structure: Techniques for writing effective prompts, open-ended and closed-ended prompts
Using Prompts in Content Production: Methods for creating prompts for AI models in different content areas like images, text, music
Ethics and Safety: Ethical and safety measures in prompt engineering, unwanted outputs, and filtering
Practical Exercises: Participants will write their own prompts, test them, and receive feedback
Week 4: AI Ethics and Responsibility
What is AI Ethics?: The definition of AI ethics, why it is important, and current examples
Fairness and Bias in AI: The importance of fairness and bias in AI systems, explained with examples
Privacy and Data Security: Protecting user data, principles of data security in AI
Transparency and Accountability: Understanding how AI models work and the explainability of results
Managing Ethical Issues: Identifying and solving ethical issues in AI projects
Week 5: Project Development and Presentation Techniques
Group projects and teamwork
Project presentations and receiving feedback
Career planning and making a mark in the digital world
Networking and personal branding in the digital age
Young people aged 16 - 29
Those who want to improve their digital skills
Anyone interested in technology and looking to build a career in this field
The program is free of charge.
Participation is limited, and applications will be evaluated for acceptance.
Participants must attend at least 80% of the program to receive a certificate.
For more information, you can email info@yucelkulturvakfi.org or visit our website at www.yucelkulturvakfi.org.
Take a step into the digital world with Yücel Cultural Foundation and let's build the future together!
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