Course Overview
In this courseyou will learn all about the broad and exciting field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI holds the promise to radically transform the business and consumer worlds over the coming decade; learn what AI is, how it matured to to its current state, what AI means for you and your business, the future of AI, and most importantly - how you can be ready for it!
Audience
This course aims to provide a broad of the AI landscape. This course is intended for business leaders, decision makers, technical program and product managers, and solution architects interested in learning more about the transformative new technology.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: What is AI?
Intro
Course Outine, timeline, and goals
Defining Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 2: The History of AI
Behavioral Modernity
Birth of Metaphysics
Documentation of Knowledge
Simple Computing Devices
The Antikythera Mechanism
Analog Computers
"Cogito, ergo sum" and the Ghost in the Machine
Mechanical Computers
Alan Turing
The Cognitive Revolution
The birth of AI
Symbolic AI / GOFAI
The AI Winter
The Emperor's New Mind
Neural networks and modern AI
The Future of AI
AI and Fusion - always 50 years away?
The Technological Singularity
Chapter 3: How does AI work?
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)
ANI Milestones
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
AGI Milestones
Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)
AGI Milestones
The Different Approaches to AI
Cybernetics and Computational Neuroscience
Symbolic AI
Cognitive Stimulation and the SOAR architecture
The Logic-Based Approach and SAIL
Anti-Logic / Scruffy
Knowledge-Based Systems
Sub-Symbolic Intelligence
Embodied Intelligence
Computational Intelligence
Chapter 4: What are the goals of AI?
Knowledge Reasoning
Planning
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision
Robotics
Symbolic AI / GOFAI
Deep Learning
Bayesian Networks
Evolutionary Algorithms
Chapter 5: AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning - What does it all mean?
How does ML relate to AI?
How does DL relate to ML/AI?
Chapter 6: AI Use Cases
How is AI being used today?
What are the future use cases of AI?
