This collection mirrors the Papers/ folder in the course repository, with one downloadable card per paper plus links to the canonical source (arXiv, journal DOI, etc.).
Of 54 PDFs in total, all are openly redistributable. A handful of references are not redistributable (Cell Press journal items, Nature comments, ACM proceedings, Wiley/SAGE journals, SSRN bot-protected) — those appear on each week’s page as link-only entries with the DOI for UCT-library access.
PDFs in this collection are redistributed under their original licences. The course materials themselves (lesson HTML and the rest of this site) are CC BY 4.0; that licence does not extend to the third-party PDFs collected here.
Video-led introductory week
Architecture, training, and alignment of large language models
Energy, water, hardware lifecycle, and the rebound problem
Ethics, ubuntu, transparency, and the just-AI framework
Tools, the hallucinated-citation crisis, and AI-augmented research workflows
How AI changes the way we write, think, and generate research ideas
Code generation, data analysis, visualization, verification, and agentic workflows
Vision, documents, audio, and video — what AI can really do across modalities