Investigating with AI

Course material for the 2026 edition. Each session links to its Google Slides deck.

Day 1: 0908 Welcome, intro, course scope, logistics;

Intro, presentations, logistics, whatsapp channel
brainstorming session: https://ai-opinion-retro.onrender.com/
LLMs: we break down the meaning of Large Language Models as Models + Language Models + Large.
LLMs: 3M models on Huggingface, a closer look at Kimi3 and Poolside:Laguna
1. Intro and Welcome
2. LLMs

News: AI, a threat to humanity
class representative election
Tech: Data; scraping; enriching with LLM ; JSON; prompting and context window;
Society: Cognitive biases when working with AI; centaurs and cyborgs; jagged frontier

Group projects : pitch
News : new platforms and models : Jev, Muse, grok bot
The OpenAI - Huggingface incident
Tech: the web as API; API keys; API caps; some APIs (wikipedia, NYT, duckduckgo)
Hands on : Wikipedia API, build a simple dataset
Hands on : NYT API, get a developper key, build a simple dataset
Society: AI and Jobs; WEF 2025 report on jobs
slides

Day 4: 0929 Tokens, embeddings and parameters; Regulating AI

Day 5: 1006 - Benchmarks and reasoning emergence; AI on Science

Day 6: 1013 - workshop

This is a special session where we work on the EU parliament debate

We will

constitute the dataset by scraping / downloading the verbatim of the debates for the past 12 months
define study questions
enrich and expand the dataset
design artefacts : applications, web sites,

Day 7: 1020 - LLM to agents, harnesses + Education

Day 8: 1103 -

Day 9: 1110 -

Day 10: 1117 -

Day 11: 1124 -

Day 12: 1201 - Project presentations