Course presentation

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In video

In summary

Brief Syllabus

  1. Intro to probability and statistics
    • distributions, information theory, regression and correlation, classification
  2. Studies and theories in neuro-science
    • memory, consciousness
  3. Classic AI
    • logics, knowledge representations, programming paradigms, cognitive architectures, state spaces, causality, Neuro-Symbolic AI, …
  4. Deep Learning
    • generative models, neural network types, interpretability, …
  5. Different Learning Approaches
    • reinforcement, unsupervised, evolutional, Bayesian, meta-learning, multi-task, …
  6. Natural Language Processing
    • text representations, Transformer, computational and language models, semantics

Sources of the course

  • Books
    • Copeland, Jack - Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction (1993)
    • Jean-Claude Bringuier - Conversations with Jean Piaget (1977)
    • Edward de Bono - Parallel/Lateral Thinking (1995)
    • French, C. C., & Colman, A. M. - Cognitive psychology (1995)
    • Elizabeth F. Loftus - Visual Perception: An Introduction (2012)
    • Jeff Hawkins
      • On Intelligence (2004)
      • A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (2021)
    • Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight - Artificial Intelligence (1991)
  • Online courses
    • edX, Coursera, udacity, campus.gov.il
    • DeepLearning.ai, Microsoft, kdnuggets
  • University courses
    • Standford
    • MIT
    • Technion
    • Bar-Ilan
    • More
      • Caltech, Virginia Tech, Duke, Sherbrooke, NPTEL

In syllabus PDF file

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