Intro to Artificial Intelligence

(3,4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all about programming computers to perform tasks normally associated with intelligent behaviour. Classical AI programs have played games, proved theorems, discovered patterns in data, planned complex assembly sequences and so on. This unit of study will introduce representations, techniques and architectures used to build intelligent systems. It will explore selected topics such as heuristic search, game playing, machine learning, neural networks and probabilistic reasoning. Students who complete it will have an understanding of some of the fundamental methods and algorithms of AI, and an appreciation of how they can be applied to interesting problems. The unit will involve a practical component in which some simple problems are solved using AI techniques. DU - Dublin, Ireland: This course will cover introductory topics and conventional algorithms needed to understand the field of Machine Learning. The course will prepare students to understand and distinguish between main groups of methods used in Machine Learning, supervised and unsupervised, and how and when they are applicable. Key topics will include Regression, Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, Neural Networks, Clustering and Principal Component Analysis.