This course introduces students to the basic concepts of AI and shows them how to build AI applications. This course is intended for students with no prior AI knowledge, and introduces the concepts in a way that does not require deep knowledge of math.
Curriculum
Students will learn to build different types of AI - to detect and predict categories (for example whether a person is Happy/Sad or Child/Adult), to detect and predict values (such as teaching an AI to do Math), and how to classify images (such as difference between cats/dogs, emoticons, medical images). They will build AI projects to do each of these and learn the concepts behind them.
Students will also do a custom project of their choice to build an AI system to solve a problem. They will showcase their project to their parents and peers on the last day of the summer camp. We will provide project ideas on the first day of camp
The core AI concepts they will learn are:
• Learn to identify different types of algorithms (classification, regression) appropriate for different types of problems and data (text, numbers, categories and images).
• Train an AI system from raw data and use it to build cool applications.
• How to improve an AI with better data
• How to measure and tune the performance of different AI algorithms to make them better
• How AI compares to rule engines (can I beat an AI by writing rules?), and when to use and not to use AI
• Difference between AI and Robotics.
• How to measure and tune the performance of different AI algorithms to make them better
• How AI can be used to process images. How to build cool image applications using AI
• What is Deep Learning? How does it work? How can it be used for AI to understand images?
• How to train an AI to compete and win in games.
Prerequisites
• A laptop with chrome browser
• Wifi connectivity
• Coding knowledge optional. All projects can be done with no code. If the student would like to code, we provide examples in Python, Java and Javascript
• No previous math or algebra knowledge needed
What Students Take Away
• A good understanding of AI - a fascinating and fundamental technology that is changing our world.
• Several AI projects that they can showcase, covering numbers, text and images
• A lifetime access to an online cloud account where they can continue to build new projects and learn more AI
• Opportunities to compete and win in AI competitions