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Workshops & seminars

GPT Unplugged: Hands-On experience with Local Large Language Models


Date & time
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Francisco Berrizbeitia

Cost

This event is free.

Organization

Webster Library

Contact

Webster Library
514-848-2424 ext. 7777

Where

R. Howard Webster Library
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room LB-205

Accessible location

Yes - See details

This workshop is open to all. Graduate students register with GradProSkills

In this session, we will use an open-source software that allows you to download and run large language models locally on standard computers. The software has a graphical interface to interact with the models without any coding, making this accessible to everyone in our community.

We will learn to privately engage with open-source foundational models, such as Llama and Phi-3, and use them to interact with our own documents without sending any information to a cloud service. As we do the hands-on experience, we will learn core Artificial Intelligence concepts that will help you navigate the sea of information out there.

This session is introductory and requires no coding skills or previous knowledge.