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Course Outline
The Basics
- Can computers think?
- Imperative and declarative approaches to problem-solving
- The purpose of artificial intelligence
- Defining artificial intelligence, the Turing test, and other criteria
- The evolution of intelligent systems
- Key achievements and development directions
Neural Networks
- Fundamentals
- Concepts of neurons and neural networks
- A simplified model of the brain
- Neuron capabilities
- The XOR problem and the nature of value distribution
- The polymorphic nature of sigmoidal functions
- Other activation functions
- Constructing neural networks
- Connecting neurons
- Viewing neural networks as nodes
- Building a network
- Neurons
- Layers
- Scales
- Input and output data
- Range from 0 to 1
- Normalization
- Training neural networks
- Backward propagation
- Propagation steps
- Network training algorithms
- Applications
- Estimation
- Issues with approximation capabilities
- Examples
- The XOR problem
- Lottery prediction?
- Stocks
- OCR and image pattern recognition
- Other applications
- Implementing a neural network model for predicting stock prices of listed companies
Problems for today
- 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.