Elements of AI: free online courses

The University of Luxembourg Competence Centre with Digital Luxembourg, INAP and the SCRIPT organise «Elements of AI», a series of free online courses created by Reaktor and the University of Helsinki. The major objective is to deploy a training offer that is corresponding to the skills needs of the industry and research.

Objectives: 

• Understand what artificial intelligence is
• Understand the different approaches around artificial intelligence
• Understand the possibilities but also the limitations of AI
• Forming an opinion about AI

Programme 

Chapter 1 - What is AI?

• How should we define AI?
• Related fields
• Philosophy of AI

Chapter 2 - AI problem solving

• Search and problem solving
• Solving problems with AI
• Search and games

Chapter 3 - Real world AI

• I. Odds and probability
• II. The Bayes rule
• III. Naive Bayes classification

Chapter 4 - Machine learning

• The types of machine learning
• The nearest neighbor classifier
• Regression 

Chapter 5 - Neural networks

• Neural network basics
• How neural networks are built
• Advanced neural network techniques

Chapter 6 - Implications

• About predicting the future
• The societal implications of AI
• Summary

Practical information

• Location: 100% online
• Date: 22/02/2021
• Duration: 30h / 6 weeks
• Language: English

Registration

Pre-registration until 22/02/2021 via https://eofai.lu/uni