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// University of Oxford · Saïd Business School

Artificial Intelligence Programme

2025 UK
Took off the theoretical engineer hat and put on the real-world problem-solving hat, where ethics, policy and business goals take centre stage. Connected over six weeks with individuals from across the world, learning many new perspectives on artificial intelligence and its deployment at scale.
  • Artificial intelligence history and ecosystem
  • AI and machine learning: understanding the black box
  • Understanding deep learning and neural networks
  • Beyond prediction: making the most of generative AI
  • AI, ethics and society

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Training a 14M GPT to Generate Children Stories in 20 Minutes: Pretraining, SFT, and Direct Preference Optimization

End to end implementation, parameter and architecture analysis, and light evaluation of the checkpoints

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Could Actor Systems Be All We Need for Agentic AI Workflows

Are We Reinventing the Wheel of Actor Systems as We Develop Agentic Orchestration for AI?

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Is Computer Science a Worthwhile Pursuit Today?

As of 2026, It Will Most Certainly Endure the Test of Time, Albeit With a Raised Bar of Expectations

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