Introduction to AI

This repo holds the learning materials taught by Yuxiao (Rain) Luo and related to the undergraduate CIS course AI, Business Systems & Cybersecurity. The materials are co-developed by Youngeui Kim and Yuxiao Luo.

Here is a weekly AI news digest: Weekly Major AI Events in 2025.

Course Description

This course explores artificial intelligence as a transformative tool in business, focusing on practical applications, strategic integration, and ethical considerations. Students will gain insight into AI’s foundational concepts, engage with industry-specific use cases, and analyze AI’s impact on organizational strategy. Through case studies, simulations, and expert talks, students will develop a managerial perspective on AI and learn to leverage AI as a source of competitive advantage.

Tentative Schedule

Please follow the official syllabus and find the coursework tab for each week. All Python code (IPython Notebook file) is included in this GitHub repo.

Prompting

• Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
• Learn Prompting
• Prompt Engineering Guide from DAIR.AI

Python Demo

• Python Basics

  • Data Type and Structures
  • Intro to Analytics

• AI Analytics

  • Descriptive analytics
  • Diagnostic analytics
  • Text mining 1
  • Text mining 2
  • Image mining 1
  • Image mining 2
  • Resources:
    • Google Data Science Agent
    • LLM Token Estimator

• AI Applications

  • Text-to-Speech (tts)
  • LLM (Google Gemini)

LLM System & APIs

Ollama

Ollama is a free, open-source tool that allows users to run large language models (LLMs) locally on their computers. Details can be found on their GitHub Page.

1. Download Ollama (Windows/macOS/Linux).
2. To use the LLMs in Ollama, you can use
   • ollama-python, the Python library for Ollama.
   • Or use Command Line program. Ex., Command Prompt for WindowsOS and Terminal for macOS.
3. Let's get started with the tutorial.
4. Please be aware of the security issues of ollama: read the article vulnerabilities in ollama

APIs

Here is the list of APIs used in the course. Since we only use free versions of these APIs, some may come with use limit. Please click into each link to obtain the API key for yourself (free account registration is needed).

• Alpha Vantage API: fetch news for LLM to do sentiment analysis from AlphaVantage, they provide free stock API service covering the majority of their datasets for up to 25 requests per day.
• Google Gemini API: call Gemini LLM API.

How to download Jupter Notebook File from this Github Repo

Click this instruction.

Markdown format

This README page is created with Markdown format, which is easy to learn here.