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Explain: What AI is (brief)
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Explain: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the design and implementation of system...
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Explain: Key types
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Explain: Narrow (or weak) AI: systems built for specific tasks (e.g., image clas...
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Explain: General (or strong) AI / AGI: hypothetical systems with broad, flexible...
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Explain: Superintelligence: a theoretical stage where AI surpasses human cogniti...
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Explain: Basic techniques (high level)
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Explain: Rule-based systems: explicit if-then rules and symbolic logic (historic...
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Explain: Machine learning (ML): systems that learn patterns from data rather tha...
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Explain: Supervised learning: learn mappings from labeled examples.
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Explain: Unsupervised learning: discover structure in unlabeled data.
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Explain: Reinforcement learning: learn policies via trial-and-error with feedbac...
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Explain: Deep learning: neural networks with many layers; excel at perception an...
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Explain: Probabilistic models and Bayesian methods: handle uncertainty, combine ...
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Explain: Supervised learning: learn mappings from labeled examples.
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Explain: Unsupervised learning: discover structure in unlabeled data.
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Explain: Reinforcement learning: learn policies via trial-and-error with feedbac...
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Explain: How modern systems work (very concise)
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Explain: Large models (e.g., large language models) are trained on massive datas...
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Explain: Strengths and typical applications
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Explain: Perception: vision, speech-to-text, object detection.
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Explain: Language: translation, summarization, question-answering, code generati...
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Explain: Prediction and optimization: demand forecasting, anomaly detection, rec...
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Explain: Automation: routine processes, data extraction, assisted decision-makin...
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Explain: Main limitations (summary)
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Explain: No genuine understanding or consciousness: models manipulate representa...
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Explain: Brittleness and lack of generalization: fail outside training distribut...
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Explain: Data dependence and bias: learn biases present in training data; perfor...
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Explain: Explainability: many models (especially deep nets) are opaque; causes a...
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Explain: Safety and robustness: can produce harmful, misleading, or unsafe outpu...
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Explain: Quick pointers for further reading
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Explain: Russell & Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (textbook)...
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Explain: Goodfellow, Bengio & Courville, Deep Learning (book).
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Explain: Bostrom, Superintelligence (philosophical/long-term risks).
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Explain: Recent review papers: “Attention Is All You Need” (transformers); OpenA...
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