Fall 2026 OLLI Digital Catalog

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: ADVANCED (L204)

L – Information Technology

Prerequisite: Course on beginning AI, or equivalent experience.
This is a course for discussing AI, not for using it. This course covers foundational artificial intelligence (AI) concepts, technical infrastructure, practical applications and societal implications. Topics include: AI as industrial-scale upheaval (economics, energy, data centers, ecosystem and an AI taxonomy); large language models (LLMs); advanced prompting, reasoning models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG); multimodal AI, agents, emergent behavior; and jobs, sector impacts, governance, artificial general intelligence (AGI) and guided reflection.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTORS: Andrea Westerinen, Jeff Westerinen

WESTERINEN, ANDREA — B.S., physics and mathematics, Marquette University; M.S., computer science, Nova Southeastern University. Software engineer and systems architect, with 40+ years’ experience. Specialization in natural language processing and knowledge engineering.

WESTERINEN, JEFF — Spent 33 years in the consumer electronics and computer industries, holding leadership roles at IBM, Intel and Microsoft. Currently, CEO of Ontoinsights, LLC, a small startup dedicated to advancing knowledge acquisition and understanding human narratives.

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