Instructional Material
An Experience Report of Executive-Level Artificial Intelligence Education in the United Arab Emirates
Johnson, David, Alsharid, Mohammad, El-Bouri, Rasheed, Mehdi, Nigel, Shamout, Farah, Szenicer, Alexandre, Toman, David, Binghalib, Saqr
Teaching artificial intelligence (AI) is challenging. It is a fast moving field and therefore difficult to keep people updated with the state-of-the-art. Educational offerings for students are ever increasing, beyond university degree programs where AI education traditionally lay. In this paper, we present an experience report of teaching an AI course to business executives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Rather than focusing only on theoretical and technical aspects, we developed a course that teaches AI with a view to enabling students to understand how to incorporate it into existing business processes. We present an overview of our course, curriculum and teaching methods, and we discuss our reflections on teaching adult learners, and to students in the UAE.
Knowledge Engineering in the Long Game of Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Speech Acts
McShane, Marjorie, English, Jesse, Nirenburg, Sergei
This paper describes principles and practices of knowledge engineering that enable the development of holistic language-endowed intelligent agents that can function across domains and applications, as well as expand their ontological and lexical knowledge through lifelong learning. For illustration, we focus on dialog act modeling, a task that has been widely pursued in linguistics, cognitive modeling, and statistical natural language processing. We describe an integrative approach grounded in the OntoAgent knowledge-centric cognitive architecture and highlight the limitations of past approaches that isolate dialog from other agent functionalities.
Deep Learning: GANs and Variational Autoencoders
Variational autoencoders and GANs have been 2 of the most interesting developments in deep learning and machine learning recently. Yann LeCun, a deep learning pioneer, has said that the most important development in recent years has been adversarial training, referring to GANs. GAN stands for generative adversarial network, where 2 neural networks compete with each other. Unsupervised learning means we're not trying to map input data to targets, we're just trying to learn the structure of that input data. Once we've learned that structure, we can do some pretty cool things.
Customer Segmentation using Machine Learning in Apache Spark - Projects Based Learning
In this project, we will perform one of the most essential applications of machine learning โ Customer Segmentation. We will implement customer segmentation in Apache Spark and Scala, whenever you need to find your best customer. Customer Segmentation is one of the most important applications of unsupervised learning. In this machine learning project, we will make use of K-means clustering which is the essential algorithm for clustering unlabeled datasets. Welcome to this project on Customer Segmentation using Apache Spark Machine Learning using Apache Zeppelin platform which allows you to execute your spark code in Apache Zeppelin notebook.
Global Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The purpose of the lecture course in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to review and analyze the role and place of AI in the framework of the scientific-technical revolution and to explain, how it performs the creative functions that are traditionally considered the prerogative of a person. During the lecture course, the history of Artificial Intelligence development, different tests of the logical character, fields of business and economy, and other sciences, where the AI is used, main scientific centers of AI, and other interesting topics will be discussed. One of the particular definitions of intelligence, common to humans and "machines", can be formulated as follows: "Intelligence is the ability of a system to create, in the course of self-learning, programs (primarily heuristic) for solving problems of a certain class of complexity and to solve these problems."
7 Steps to Mastering Machine Learning with Python in 2022 - KDnuggets
Are you trying to teach yourself machine learning from scratch, but aren't sure where to start? Or maybe you've taken an online course or two, but have hit a roadblock in your learning journey and don't know how to proceed. I was in a similar position just two years ago. I had spent over $25K in university fees, but was still inexperienced and unprepared for the job market. It took a lot of trial and error for me to come up with a machine learning roadmap.
Data Science: Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
In this course you will build MULTIPLE practical systems using natural language processing, or NLP - the branch of machine learning and data science that deals with text and speech. This course is not part of my deep learning series, so it doesn't contain any hard math - just straight up coding in Python. All the materials for this course are FREE. After a brief discussion about what NLP is and what it can do, we will begin building very useful stuff. The first thing we'll build is a cipher decryption algorithm.
Artificial intelligence can be used to tackle COVID-19 inequities
TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2022 โ Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help tackle inequities that contribute to a higher risk of the most vulnerable contracting and dying of COVID-19, but York University researchers say the right data is crucial for that to happen. Vulnerable people are often more exposed to COVID-19 through their work, such as meat packing plants, and their living conditions which are often crowed, and they face more economic barriers, such having to rely on public transportation. York University Assistant Professor Jude Kong, Associate Professor Ali Asgary, and Distinguished Research Professor Jianhong Wu, can discuss how AI can play a role in eliminating inequities, especially during crises such as the current pandemic, ahead of upcoming webinar โ Discovering COVID-19 Inequities and Systemic Vulnerabilities the Role of Artificial Intelligent Policy Implications. The webinar is part of the Transformative Disaster Risk Governance Webinar Series. "There is a need to use artificial intelligence to collect data disaggregated by race, gender, sexuality, class, geographic location and Indigeneity to better understand how COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting vulnerable people, whether here in Canada or in Africa, where many countries have difficulty obtaining vaccines. This kind of data could not only help with today's pandemic, but prepare for future crises by ensuring effective allocation of resources," says Kong, Faculty of Science, and director of the Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium.
Data Science : Master Machine Learning Without Coding
There's literally no other course on Udemy that teaches Machine Learning without the need for programming knowledge or coding, using free open source software! Why Data Science and Machine Learning are the Hottest and Most In-Demand Technology Jobs. Data Scientist was recently dubbed "The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" by Harvard Business Review, and for good reason! If you're looking for a fast and effective way to earn a 6-figure income without spending thousands of dollars in training, keep reading to learn about this revolutionary Udemy course. Glassdoor reports that Data Scientist was named the "Best Job in America for 2016," which was based on the huge amount of career opportunities and 6-figure average salary.