Course 5 · Unit 8
Final project — AI systems engineering
Part of Advanced level (optional): specialisations
- 2 lessons
- ≈ 8 h of study
- Level: advanced
A complete AI system, from the interface to deployment, defended technically.
Topics covered
- Architecture
- Data
- Models
- Training
- Evaluation
- Inference
- Security
- Scaling
- Cost
- Monitoring
Lessons in this unit
- Designing an AI system end to end 90 min
From a one-sentence business request to an architecture with numbers - requirements, SLOs, components, capacity, cost and failure modes. - Technical defence — justifying every decision with numbers 95 min
Answering "why this architecture, this complexity, where's the bottleneck, how does it scale and how much does it cost?" with structure, alternatives and estimates.
Prerequisites
Before this unit it helps to have done:
- The AI frontier (Course 5 · Unit 7)
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