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Lesson 1: Fundamentals & Lifecycle of Application-Centric Evals
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Recorded Lecture: Fundamentals & Lifecycle of Application-Centric Evals
Lesson 1
You will learn:
- Why evaluation matters for LLM applications - business impact and risk mitigation
- Challenges unique to evaluating LLM outputs - common failure modes and context-dependence
- The evals lifecycle
- Prompting fundamentals
This lecture covers Chapters 1 & 2 in the course reader.
The optional homework for this lecture is homework 1 in https://github.com/ai-evals-course/recipe-chatbot.
Slides (note that we only cover some of the slides, and often do not go through the slides linearly): Lesson 1 Slides
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Chapter 4: The Evaluation Lifecycle
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