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Course Outline
Fundamentals
- Can computers think?
- Imperative versus declarative problem-solving approaches
- The rationale behind artificial intelligence
- Defining artificial intelligence: The Turing test and other key metrics
- The evolution of intelligent system concepts
- Major achievements and future development trends
Neural Networks
- Core concepts
- Understanding neurons and neural network structures
- A simplified model of the human brain
- The function of a neuron
- The XOR problem and the nature of data distribution
- The versatility of sigmoidal functions
- Other activation functions
- Architecting neural networks
- The concept of neuronal connectivity
- Visualizing neural networks as nodes
- Constructing a network
- Neurons
- Layers
- Scaling
- Input and output data handling
- Value ranges from 0 to 1
- Normalization techniques
- Training Neural Networks
- Backpropagation
- Propagation steps
- Network training algorithms
- Areas of application
- Estimation methods
- Challenges in approximation capabilities
- Examples
- The XOR problem
- Lottery prediction?
- Stock market analysis
- OCR and image pattern recognition
- Additional applications
- Case study: Modeling job predictions and stock price forecasting for listed companies
Contemporary Issues
- Combinatorial explosion and gaming challenges
- Revisiting the Turing test
- Overconfidence in computer capabilities
7 Hours
Testimonials (3)
It felt like we were going through directly relevant information at a good pace (i.e. no filler material)
Maggie Webb - Department of Jobs, Regions, and Precincts
Course - Introduction to the use of neural networks
The interactive part, tailored to our specific needs.
Thomas Stocker
Course - Introduction to the use of neural networks
Ann created a great environment to ask questions and learn. We had a lot of fun and also learned a lot at the same time.