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Course Outline
Fundamentals
- Can computers truly think?
- Imperative versus declarative problem-solving approaches
- The origins and purpose of artificial intelligence
- Defining artificial intelligence, the Turing test, and other key criteria
- The evolution of intelligent system concepts
- Major achievements and future development directions
Neural Networks
- Core principles
- Understanding neurons and neural networks
- A simplified model of the brain
- Capabilities of neurons
- The XOR problem and the nature of value distribution
- The flexible nature of sigmoidal functions
- Other activation functions
- Constructing neural networks
- The concept of neuron connections
- Viewpoint of neural networks as nodes
- Network architecture
- Neurons
- Layers
- Scales
- Input and output data
- Normalization range from 0 to 1
- Normalization techniques
- Training Neural Networks
- Backpropagation
- Propagation steps
- Network training algorithms
- Application scope
- Evaluation methods
- Challenges in approximation capabilities
- Case studies
- The XOR problem
- Lottery prediction?
- Stock market analysis
- OCR and image pattern recognition
- Other applications
- Implementing a neural network to predict stock prices of listed companies
Contemporary Challenges
- Combinatorial explosion and gaming issues
- 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.