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Course Outline
Foundations
- Can computers think?
- Imperative and declarative approaches to problem-solving
- Goals and objectives of artificial intelligence
- Defining artificial intelligence: The Turing test and other key metrics
- The evolution of intelligent systems
- Major achievements and development trends
Neural Networks
- Core concepts
- Understanding neurons and neural networks
- Simplified models of the brain
- The function of neurons
- The XOR problem and the nature of value distribution
- The properties of sigmoidal functions
- Other activation functions
- Constructing neural networks
- Connections between neurons
- Neural networks as node-based structures
- Network architecture
- Neurons
- Layers
- Scales
- Input and output data
- The 0 to 1 range
- Normalization
- Training neural networks
- Backpropagation
- Steps of propagation
- Network training algorithms
- Range of applications
- Evaluation
- Challenges in approximation capabilities
- Examples
- The XOR problem
- Lotto?
- Stocks
- OCR and image pattern recognition
- Other applications
- Implementing a neural network modeling task for predicting the stock prices of 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.