Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Dr Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský, Elisabetta Geromel-Lister, Elke StJohn, and Professor Ursula Stickler. Dr Rodrigo Hernaíz-Gomez was the linguistic advisor (Spanish) and Dr Qian Kan was the linguistic advisor (Chinese) on the course.

Session 4 credits:

Dr Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský – lead author, introduction, summary, Section 1, Section 2

Elisabetta Geromel-Lister – Section 4 (text about LLM and AI)

Professor Ursula Stickler – end-of-course quiz

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