TIM DE PAEPE

I started working with computers in the nineties.

From MS-DOS to Win95

Played DOOM alot!

The save icon was the real deal.

I studied multimedia, ICT and arts (theatrical direction)

I worked in web agencies and software companies.

I teach and work in  performative arts.

This is my daughter

Jeanne

Introduction

Technology 2

ECTS

• Watch online
• 5 credits
• Face-to-face instruction: 24 hours, 2 hours a week
• Exercises: 12 hours, 1 hour a week @home
• Self study tasks
  • Assignments: 72 hours, 5,5 hours a week
  • Study Hours: 29,5 hours
• Total time: 137,5 hours

Technology 2

• Master the core principles of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Explore how to create stunning AI-generated art using diffusion models:
  • Dive into AI image creation techniques:
    • text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, ControlNet, Upscaling, IPAdapter and LoRA
  • Learn how to produce AI-generated videos and animated visuals
  • Learn how to train your own LoRA model
  • Learn how to use the next generation diffusion models

Technology 2

• Maximize your productivity by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into your workflow
• Create a crew of AI agents to build AI applictions in the era of Agentic AI.

Introduction

Schedule

Schedule

Schedule

Lessons

• On Tuesday, check your agenda
• 12:30 - 13:30
• Why are you coming to the lessons?
  • Practical lessons
  • Exercises + weekly portfolio
  • Evaluation
  • Assignments

Tools

• Canvas
  • Announcements
  • Modules
  • Assignments
• Teams
  • Communication
  • Expect no answer before 9 a.m. and after 5 p.m.

Rundiffusion

• During the course, you need access to a ComfyUI instance
• We will use Rundiffusion
• We'll use this during lessons and evaluation (week 8)
• Make an account and add credits
  • Min. $30,00 for use during lessons and evaluation
  • Between $15,00 - $20,00 for homework and self-study
• ​No credits: don't come to class

Adobe Portfolio

• Sharing your weekly AI Generated Content via a website
• We will use Adobe Portfolio
• Free with your Creative Cloud account​​

Introduction

Evaluation

Evaluation

First exam period

• 50% assignments, out of exam period

• 50% oral, within exam period

Third term (within exam period)

• 70% assignments, out of exam period

• 30% oral, within exam period

Assignments

• Weekly Portfolio - 20%
• AI Fundamentals (week 8) - 10%
• Art Generation (week 8) - 20%
• Oral Examination: Portfolio - 25%
• Oral Examination: Agentic AI with CrewAI - 25%

Conditions

• If an assignment is submitted late, but less than 24 hours after the deadline, one-third of the points will be deducted. After 24 hours of late submission, a zero will be awarded for this assignment.
• Duplicating texts that are been written by a human is not allowed, you are the author.
• Generated texts and media are allowed, unless otherwise stated in the assignment.

Introduction

Introduction exercise

Setting up Rundiffusion

• Go to https://rundiffusion.com/
• Make an account
• Add credits (if you already can), minimum $20,00
• Start a ComfyUI environment

Setting up Adobe Portfolio

Generate Content

• Make a description about yourself in text
• Let ChatGPT rephrase your description and turn it in a prompt for image generation. 
• Make use of an image generator in the style you want. You can use Adobe Firefly (part of your Creative Cloud account)
• Generate an image in portrait mode.
• If you are satisfied with the result, post all your generated images in your portfolio (make a page Week 1)

Let the machine learn

• Go to Google's Teachable Machine
• Get Started and start an image project
• We are going to train our first model!
• Download some of the image of the Padlet and classify those images as "My Class"
• Download some images of cats via Google Search and classify those images as "Cats"
• Now... Train the model and see if the model can distinguish cats from people of our class

For next week...

AI Fundamentals