AI Essentials
| Status | Live |
| Estimated time | 8-10 hours |
| Prerequisites | None, Data Driven Foundation recommended |
| Next steps | AI Foundation / AI for Business, Growth |
Step into the wonderful world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This learning journey takes you through the technology and techniques that lie behind smart applications such as expert systems, ChatGPT and image recognition. We explain what AI is, addressing basic techniques such as Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Deep Learning and cover application areas such as clustering, classification, (customised) GPTs, voice and music generation and expert systems.
In this journey, we assume the participant has a basic awareness of data equivalent to “Data Driven Foundation”. You can follow this journey first however and fill in your knowledge gaps with the data driven learning path later.
This learning journey is accredited to the BCS Essentials level – see course materials for more info. The journey prepares you for the exam which you can take via Exin which requires a separate exam voucher (contact us for more information).
Following on from this journey, you can progress to the AI Brevet (NL AI Coalition) or AI Foundation course for more depth or consider the Generative AI and Prompting course for image, text and sound generation.
The learning objectives are:
- Understand why Data, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence are vital for your future
- Explore what Data Science and Artificial Intelligence are and how they create disruptive change
- Learn what algorithms and machine learning are and how these are used
- Build your first AI Models using Automated Machine Learning and our safe GPT playground
- Become aware of the key risks and dilemma’s and what measures you can take to mitigate these
- Understand the EU’s Human Centric Ethical Purpose and the 2024 EU AI Act
- Learn how to get started with an application area
Revisions
- Summer 24
Update LLMs, Generative AI developments, EU AI Act revisions and numerous small improvements
EXIN BCS Accreditation Documents and Course Guidelines
- Axveco EXIN Accreditation
- BCS Essentials Syllabus
EU AI Act Final Document
Suggested Reading
Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
- Human + Machine - Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson,
Harvard Business Review Press Publication Date: 2018
ISBN: 1633693869. - Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI - download
High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, 2019 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution - download
Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum, 2016 - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (3rd edition)
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, 2016
ISBN 10: 1292153962 - The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence
Keith Frankish and William Ramsey 2014
ISBN 978-0-521-69191-8 - The Conscious Mind
David Chalmers 1996
IBSN 978-0-19-511789-9 - Life 3.0
Max Tegmark, 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books
IBSN 978-0-141-98180-2 - Artificial Intelligence Foundations (Learning from experience)
Andrew Lowe and Steve Lawless, 2021
Publisher: BCS
IBSN 9781780175300
Machine Learning
- Machine Learning
Tom Mitchell, 1997
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0071154671 - Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners: A Plain English Introduction (2nd Edition)
Oliver Theobald, 2017
ISBN 1549617214
High Level / Management Consultant View of Machine Learning
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab, 2016
Publisher: Penguin Random House
IBSN: 978-0-241-30075-6 - Human + Machine - Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
Paul R Daugherty and H. James Wilson, 2018
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
IBSN: 1633693869
High Level / Research and Political View of Machine Learning
- Machine Learning
Royal Society
Link
Professional Development of Machine Learning Algorithms and Planning
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
Aurélien Géron, O’Reilly 2017
ISBN 1491962291 - Machine Learning - A Probabilistic Perspective
Kevin P. Murphy, 2012
Publisher: MIT
IBSN 100262018020
Additional Reading
- The Singularity is Near
Ray Kurzweil, 2005
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
IBSN 978-0715635612 - The Mythical Man Month
Frederick P. Brooks, JR., 1995
Publisher: Addison Wesley
IBSN 0-201-83595-9 - Artificial Intelligence: 101 Things You Must Know Today About Our Future
Lasse Rouhiainen, 2018
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
IBSN 1982048808
