The course introduces the variety of concepts in the field of artificial intelligence. It discusses the philosophy of AI, and how to model a new problem as an AI problem. It describes a variety of models such as search, logic, Bayes nets, and MDPs, which can be used to model a new problem. It also teaches many first algorithms to solve each formulation. The course prepares a student to take a variety of focused, advanced courses in various subfields of AI.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Undergraduate students in computer science
PREREQUISITES
Data Structures, Probability
INDUSTRY SUPPORT
Most software companies
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Mausam is an Associate Professor of Computer Science department at IIT Delhi, and an affiliate faculty member at University of Washington, Seattle. His research explores several threads in artificial intelligence, including scaling probabilistic planning algorithms, large-scale information extraction over the Web, and enabling complex computation over crowdsourced platforms. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 2007 and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2001. ArnetMiner, a global citation aggregator, has rated Mausam as the 25th most influential scholar in AI for 2019. He was recently awarded the AAAI Senior Member status for his long-term participation in AAAI and distinction in the field of artificial intelligence.
Additional information
Institute
IITD
Total hours
30
Certification Process
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COURSE ENROLMENT FEE: The Fee for Enrolment is Rs. 3000 + GST
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3. Get qualified to register for exams
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CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE
Assignment score = Score more than 50% in at least 9/12 assignments.
Exam score = 50% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
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EXAM FEE: The remote proctoring exam is optional for a fee of Rs.1500 + GST. An additional fee of Rs.1500 will apply for a non-standard time slot.
5. Results and Certification
After the exam, based on the certification criteria of the course, results will be declared and learners will be notified of the same. A link to download the e-certificate will be shared with learners who pass the certification exam.
CERTIFICATE TEMPLATE
Course Details
Week 1 : Introduction: Philosophy of AI, Definitions Week 2 : Modeling a Problem as Search Problem, Uninformed Search Week 3 : Heuristic Search, Domain Relaxations Week 4 : Local Search, Genetic Algorithms Week 5 : Adversarial Search Week 6 : Constraint Satisfaction Week 7 : Propositional Logic & Satisfiability Week 8 : Uncertainty in AI, Bayesian Networks Week 9 : Bayesian Networks Learning & Inference, Decision Theory Week 10 : Markov Decision Processes Week 11 : Reinforcement Learning Week 12 : Introduction to Deep Learning & Deep RL
Books and References
Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall, Third Edition (2009) (required).
Ian GoodFellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville, Deep Learning, MIT Press (2016).
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Sagar Banate –
This is a totally helpful for beginners to learn AI Basic + Advance Level Syllabus from India’s Best Institute IITM.