THE 12 Most Interesting free Online AI Courses from MIT, Stanford, Amazon, Harvard, and others

Most of the work positions in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, or basically any of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) work require you to have at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or some related area.But if you're from the United States or some other country where most people can't afford to go to the best universities, you need to find other ways to get yourself educated.Fortunately, nowadays you don't have to get a formal degree with the short supply of qualified professionals from these fields - demonstrating your expertise in other forms, such as the courses you've completed, is enough to get you a position.But with that comes a lot of people all trying to sell their own Artificial Intelligence course.In this article, I will discuss some of the best free Artificial Intelligence Courses that come from MIT, Stanford, Amazon, Harvard, and others that you can take, regardless of where you live and how much money you have - I personally took these courses on my own, or I got them recommended by close friends who took them so I can be sure they're good. (BTW I'm not sponsored by any of these. 🙄)You may also be interested in reading about the 5 Best Artificial Intelligence Books in 2020 and the top 5 Interesting FREE AI Books for absolute Beginners by Springer.    THE best free online Artificial Intelligence courses 1. Machine Learning (Andrew Ng)This Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng is probably the most popular course offered by an independent teacher.Andrew Ng co-founded Google Brain and was Chief Scientist in Baidu's A.I research division and can express information in a simplified way that you will be able to easily understand.This course is so awesome because it doesn't have a steep learning curve - which is extremely important for people who have never heard of Machine Learning - it doesn't assume that you have any previous knowledge and gradually guides you through complicated subjects to make your learning experience challenging but enjoyable.Furthermore, it avoids complex math which is probably the biggest fear for people that want to get into Machine Learning and AI.    2. CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python (Harvard)This 7-week Harvard course will teach you how to use machine learning in Python and explore the concepts and algorithms used in modern artificial intelligence - you will immerse yourself in ideas that give rise to technologies such as machine translation and handwriting recognition.It includes hands-on projects where you can learn about algorithms for graph searching, adversarial search, classification, optimization, logical inference, and probability theory and how to incorporate them into your own Python code.   3.