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Robin Youlton

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Silver League

54210 points
Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance Earned אוג 23, 2025 EDT
Deploy a RAG application with vector search in Firestore Earned אוג 22, 2025 EDT
Edit images with Imagen Earned אוג 5, 2025 EDT
Generate and Edit Media with Imagen, Gemini, and Veo Earned אוג 5, 2025 EDT
Build Gen AI solutions using Model Garden models and APIs Earned אוג 4, 2025 EDT
Improve Performance by Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Earned אוג 4, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use Earned יול 31, 2025 EDT
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models Earned יול 31, 2025 EDT
Explore Google's Gen AI Models Earned יול 31, 2025 EDT
Empower Gen AI apps with tool use Earned יול 29, 2025 EDT
Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI Earned יול 28, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation Earned מרץ 10, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI Earned מרץ 7, 2025 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started Earned מרץ 7, 2025 EST
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud Earned ינו 16, 2025 EST
Professional Machine Learning Engineer Study Guide Earned דצמ 25, 2024 EST
Build and Deploy a Generative AI solution using a RAG framework Earned אוג 25, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings Earned יול 31, 2024 EDT
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned יול 26, 2024 EDT
Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps Earned יול 25, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned יול 19, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned יול 19, 2024 EDT
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned יול 18, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned יונ 14, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI - בעברית Earned יונ 12, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned מאי 28, 2024 EDT
Conversational AI on Vertex AI and Dialogflow CX Earned פבר 13, 2024 EST
Generative AI Explorer - Vertex AI Earned ספט 18, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Studio - בעברית Earned ספט 18, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models - בעברית Earned ספט 16, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model - בעברית Earned ספט 16, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture - בעברית Earned ספט 15, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism - בעברית Earned ספט 15, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation - בעברית Earned ספט 15, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models - בעברית Earned ספט 13, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI - בעברית Earned ספט 12, 2023 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned אוק 25, 2021 EDT
Cloud Architecture - Design, Implement, and Manage Earned נוב 29, 2019 EST
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture Earned נוב 27, 2019 EST

Complete the Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use the Gen AI evaluation service. You will evaluate models to select the best model for a given task, compare models against each other and evaluate the performance of agents. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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This lab tests your ability to develop a real-world Generative AI Q&A solution using a RAG framework. You will use Firestore as a vector database and deploy a Flask app as a user interface to query a food safety knowledge base.

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Complete the Edit images with Imagen skill badge to demonstrate your skills with Imagen's mask modes and editing modes to edit images according to certain prompts. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Generate engaging media with Google's foundation models for media. Create new images with Imagen, or edit your existing photos by adding details or outpainting to create a wider view. Replace backgrounds to put your products in new scenes. And learn the basics of generating videos with Veo!

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Complete the Develop solutions using Model Garden APIs skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use Vertex AI Model Garden features when building gen AI solutions. You will use partner APIs such as Anthropic Claude ands Meta Llama, deploy and programatically access foundation models like Gemma and Stable Diffusion XL and access Vertex AI Endpoints. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Model tuning is an effective way to customize large models to your tasks. It's a key step to improve the model's quality and efficiency. Model tuning provides benefits such as higher quality results for your specific tasks and increased model robustness. You learn some of the tuning options available in Vertex AI and when to use them.

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Complete the Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in connecting models to external tools and APIs. This allows models to augment their knowledge, extend their capabilities and interact with external systems to take actions such as sending an email. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!"

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Learn a variety of strategies and techniques to engineer effective prompts for generative models

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Learn how to leverage Gemini multimodal capabilities to process and generate text, images, and audio and to integrate Gemini through APIs to perform tasks such as content creation and summarization.

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An LLM-based application can process language in a way that resembles thought. But if you want to extend its capabilities to take actions by running other functions you have coded, you will need to use function calling. This can also be referred to as tool use. Additionally, you can give a model the ability to search Google or search a data store of documents to ground its responses. In other words, to base its answers on that information. In this course, you’ll explore these concepts.

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Complete the intermediate Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in text generation, image and video analysis for enhanced content creation, and applying function calling techniques within the Gemini API. Discover how to leverage sophisticated Gemini techniques, explore multimodal content generation, and expand the capabilities of your AI-powered projects.

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This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production. Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.

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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Vertex AI empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.

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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Machine Learning Engineering professionals use tools for continuous improvement and evaluation of deployed models. They work with (or can be) Data Scientists, who develop models, to enable velocity and rigor in deploying the best performing models.

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This course introduces the AI and machine learning (ML) offerings on Google Cloud that build both predictive and generative AI projects. It explores the technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI life cycle, encompassing AI foundations, development, and solutions. It aims to help data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers enhance their skills and knowledge through engaging learning experiences and practical hands-on exercises.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PMLE (Professional Machine Learning Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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Demonstrate your ability to implement updated prompt engineering techniques and utilize several of Gemini's key capacilities including multimodal understanding and function calling. Then integrate generative AI into a RAG application deployed to Cloud Run. This course contains labs that are to be used as a test environment. They are deployed to test your understanding as a learner with a limited scope. These technologies can be used with fewer limitations in a real world environment.

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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine.

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Text Prompt Engineering Techniques introduces you to consider different strategic approaches & techniques to deploy when writing prompts for text-based generative AI tasks.

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This course on Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps is composed of a set of labs to give you a hands on experience to interacting with new Generative AI technologies. You will learn how to create end-to-end search and conversational experiences by following examples. These technologies complement predefined intent-based chat experiences created in Dialogflow with LLM-based, generative answers that can be based on your own data. Also, they allow you to porvide enterprise-grade search experiences for internal and external websites to search documents, structure data and public websites.

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Earn a skill badge by passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Vertex AI. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios.

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A Business Leader in Generative AI can articulate the capabilities of core cloud Generative AI products and services and understand how they benefit organizations. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey and how they can leverage Google Cloud's generative AI products to overcome these challenges.

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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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זהו קורס מבוא ממוקד שמטרתו להסביר מהי אתיקה של בינה מלאכותית, למה היא חשובה ואיך Google נוהגת לפי כללי האתיקה של הבינה המלאכותית במוצרים שלה. מוצגים בו גם 7 עקרונות ה-AI של Google.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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In this course you will learn how to use the new generative AI features in Dialogflow CX to create virtual agents that can have more natural and engaging conversations with customers. Discover how to deploy generative fallback responses to gracefully handle errors and omissions in customer conversations, deploy generators to increase intent coverage, and structure, ingest, and manage data in a data store. And explore how to deploy and maintain generative AI agents using your data, and deploy and maintain hybrid agents in combination with existing intent-based design paradigms.

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The Generative AI Explorer - Vertex Quest is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the models in the Vertex AI PaLM API family, including text-bison, chat-bison, and textembedding-gecko. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via Vertex AI custom training and deploy it to a Vertex AI endpoint.

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בקורס הזה נלמד על Generative AI Studio, מוצר ב-Vertex AI שעוזר ליצור אבות טיפוס למודלים של בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית, כדי להשתמש בהם ולהתאים אותם לפי הצרכים שלכם. באמצעות הדגמה של המוצר עצמו, נלמד מהו Generative AI Studio, מהם הפיצ'רים והאפשרויות שלו, ואיך להשתמש בו. בסוף הקורס יהיה שיעור Lab מעשי לתרגול של מה שנלמד, ובוחן לבדיקת הידע.

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בקורס הזה תלמדו איך ליצור מודל הוספת כיתוב לתמונה באמצעות למידה עמוקה (Deep Learning). אתם תלמדו על הרכיבים השונים במודל הוספת כיתוב לתמונה, כמו המקודד והמפענח, ואיך לאמן את המודל ולהעריך את הביצועים שלו. בסוף הקורס תוכלו ליצור מודלים להוספת כיתוב לתמונה ולהשתמש בהם כדי ליצור כיתובים לתמונות

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בקורס הזה נציג את הארכיטקטורה של טרנספורמרים ואת המודל של ייצוגים דו-כיווניים של מקודד מטרנספורמרים (BERT). תלמדו על החלקים השונים בארכיטקטורת הטרנספורמר, כמו מנגנון תשומת הלב, ועל התפקיד שלו בבניית מודל BERT. תלמדו גם על המשימות השונות שאפשר להשתמש ב-BERT כדי לבצע אותן, כמו סיווג טקסטים, מענה על שאלות והֶקֵּשׁ משפה טבעית. נדרשות כ-45 דקות כדי להשלים את הקורס הזה.

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בקורס הזה לומדים בקצרה על ארכיטקטורת מקודד-מפענח, ארכיטקטורה עוצמתית ונפוצה ללמידת מכונה שמשתמשים בה במשימות של רצף לרצף, כמו תרגום אוטומטי, סיכום טקסט ומענה לשאלות. תלמדו על החלקים השונים בארכיטקטורת מקודד-מפענח, איך לאמן את המודלים האלה ואיך להשתמש בהם. בהדרכה המפורטת המשלימה בשיעור ה-Lab תקודדו ב-TensorFlow תרחיש שימוש פשוט בארכיטקטורת מקודד-מפענח: כתיבת שיר מאפס.

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בקורס נלמד על מנגנון תשומת הלב, שיטה טובה מאוד שמאפשרת לרשתות נוירונים להתמקד בחלקים ספציפיים ברצף הקלט. נלמד איך עובד העיקרון של תשומת הלב, ואיך אפשר להשתמש בו כדי לשפר את הביצועים במגוון משימות של למידת מכונה, כולל תרגום אוטומטי, סיכום טקסט ומענה לשאלות.

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בקורס נלמד על מודלים של דיפוזיה, משפחת מודלים של למידת מכונה שיצרו הרבה ציפיות לאחרונה בתחום של יצירת תמונות. מודלים של דיפוזיה שואבים השראה מפיזיקה, וספציפית מתרמודינמיקה. בשנים האחרונות, מודלים של דיפוזיה הפכו לפופולריים גם בתחום המחקר וגם בתעשייה. מודלים של דיפוזיה עומדים מאחורי הרבה מהכלים והמודלים החדשניים ליצירת תמונות ב-Google Cloud. בקורס הזה נלמד על התיאוריה שמאחורי מודלים של דיפוזיה, ואיך לאמן ולפרוס אותם ב-Vertex AI.

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זהו קורס מבוא ממוקד שבוחן מהם מודלים גדולים של שפה (LLM), איך משתמשים בהם בתרחישים שונים לדוגמה ואיך אפשר לשפר את הביצועים שלהם באמצעות כוונון של הנחיות. הוא גם כולל הסבר על הכלים של Google שיעזרו לכם לפתח אפליקציות בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית משלכם.

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זהו קורס מבוא ממוקד שמטרתו להסביר מהי בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית, איך משתמשים בה ובמה היא שונה משיטות מסורתיות של למידת מכונה. הוא גם כולל הסבר על הכלים של Google שיעזרו לכם לפתח אפליקציות בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית משלכם.

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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.

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This quest of "Challenge Labs" gives the student preparing for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification hands-on practice with common business/technology solutions using Google Cloud architectures. Challenge Labs do not provide the "cookbook" steps, but require solutions to be built with minimal guidance, across many Google Cloud technologies. All labs have activity tracking, and in order to earn this badge you must score 100% in each lab. This quest is not easy and will put your Google Cloud technology skills to the test! Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your knowledge and abilities, additional study, experience, and background in cloud architecture is recommended to prepare for this certification. Complete this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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