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IIT Madras 12-Weeks Free Certificate Course on Artificial Intelligence | Last Date to Apply is 1st August 2022

IIT Madras 12-Weeks Free Certificate Course on Artificial Intelligence | Last Date to Apply is 1st August 2022

ABOUT THE COURSE:

For an autonomous agent to behave in an intelligent manner it must be able to solve problems. This means it should be able to arrive at decisions that transform a given situation into a desired or goal situation. The agent should be able to imagine the consequence of its decisions to be able to identify the ones that work. In this first course on AI we study a wide variety of search methods that agents can employ for problem solving. In a follow up course – AI: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning – we will go into the details of how an agent can represent its world and reason with what it knows. These two courses should lay a strong foundation for artificial intelligence, which the student can build upon. A third short course – AI: Constraint Satisfaction Problems – presents a slightly different formalism for problem solving, one in which the search and reasoning processes mentioned above can operate together.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:

This is a first course on Artificial Intelligence. While the intended audience is both UG and PG students studying Computer Science, in fact anyone comfortable with talking about algorithms should be able to do the course.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT:

Any industry that is involved in development of AI applications. This not only includes software companies (like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook) but also manufacturing companies like Ford and General Electric, and retail companies like Amazon and Flipkart.

Course Content:

Week 0: Introduction: History, Can Machines think?, Turing Test, Winograd Schema Challenge, Language and Thought, Wheels & Gears.
Week 1: Introduction: Philosophy, Mind, Reasoning, Computation, Dartmouth Conference, The Chess Saga, Epiphenomena.
Week 2: State Space Search: Depth First Search, Breadth First Search, Depth First Iterative Deepening.
Week 3: Heuristic Search: Best First Search, Hill Climbing, Solution Space, TSP, Escaping Local Optima, Stochastic Local Search.
Week 4: Population Based Methods: Genetic Algorithms, SAT, TSP, emergent Systems, Ant Colony Optimization.
Week 5: Finding Optimal Paths: Branch & Bound, A*, Admissibility of A*, Informed Heuristic Functions.
Week 6: Space Saving Versions of A*: Weighted A*, IDA*, RBFS, Monotone Condition, Sequence Alignment, DCFS, SMGS, Beam Stack Search.
Week 7: Game Playing: Game Theory, Board Games and Game Trees, Algorithm Minimax, AlphaBeta and SSS*.
Week 8: Automated Planning: Domain Independent Planning, Blocks World, Forward &Backward Search, Goal Stack Planning, Plan Space Planning.
Week 9: Problem Decomposition: Means Ends Analysis, Algorithm Graphplan, Algorithm AO*.
Week 10: Rule Based Expert Systems: Production Systems, Inference Engine, Match-Resolve-Execute, Rete Net.
Week 11: Deduction as Search: Logic, Soundness, Completeness, First Order Logic, Forward Chaining, Backward Chaining.
Week 12: Constraint Processing: CSPs, Consistency Based Diagnosis, Algorithm Backtracking, Arc Consistency, Algorithm Forward Checking.

About Certificate:

  • If you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
  • The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
  • Date and Time of Exams: 29 October 2022
    • Morning session 9 AM to 12 Noon;
    • Afternoon Session 2 PM to 5 PM.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE:

Average assignment score= 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.

Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100.

Final score= Average assignment score + Exam score.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

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