Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Chaos · 23 Aug 2011 at 11:12

Just a heads up if anyone's interested -

"A bold experiment in distributed education, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011. The course will include feedback on progress and a statement of accomplishment. Taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, the curriculum draws from that used in Stanford's introductory Artificial Intelligence course. The instructors will offer similar materials, assignments, and exams."

http://www.ai-class.com/

sunama · 23 Aug 2011 at 18:41

It seems that they Stanford are going to start taking registrations later this Summer.
This should be interesting.

Pants · 23 Aug 2011 at 19:23

Awesome. Free education.

Edit: This looks helpful too... http://www.khanacademy.org/

greyfox591 · 23 Aug 2011 at 19:28

Pants said:
Awesome. Free education.

lol free education
sounds interesting, I'm in

Pants · 23 Aug 2011 at 20:20

greyfox591 said:
lol free education
sounds interesting, I'm in

I'm in too, but it's going to be painful brushing up on Algebra / Probabilities. More like completely re-learning it all from scratch!

Zirax · 23 Aug 2011 at 21:24

I just stumbled across this thread. What an awesome thing these guys are doing!

My final year project at uni was on AI and covered Reinforcement Learning. Using Bayesian filters is really interesting. Game trees and Alpha/Beta techniques are what I used when coding a form of connect 4 and O & X. They don't seem to be covering neural networks which is another great area.

Xelene · 24 Aug 2011 at 13:59

I might run through this, have a degree in AI but am a bit rusty having not used it for 15 years or so...

SourChipmunk · 26 Aug 2011 at 17:37

Thanks for sharing! Signed up with the other 132,000.

hargi · 26 Aug 2011 at 19:07

linear algebra?

mikeyp123 · 28 Aug 2011 at 01:32

Shame this is AFTER i've done this module..

Zirax · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:06

Just a heads up. Registrations are now open, just had an email come through for this.

Emphacy · 4 Sep 2011 at 19:08

Hmm robotics... Interesting.

ZombieFan · 4 Sep 2011 at 23:07

I've gone for the basic course. I don't think I will have the free time for the full one.

PermaBanned · 4 Sep 2011 at 23:35

Wake me up when it actually exists

SourChipmunk · 6 Sep 2011 at 15:58

I think I am eliminated.

Prerequisites
A solid understanding of probability and linear algebra will be required.

Probability I could probably do ok with, but I have no grasp of linear algebra at all. Looking at tutorials online and I don't think I could teach it to myself in a month.

Zirax · 8 Sep 2011 at 22:00

PermaBanned said:
Wake me up when it actually exists

I can see where you are going and with the links to the new startup company

AHarvey · 15 Oct 2011 at 10:36

Anyone watched the tutorial videos yet?

I signed up for the basic course due to time constraints, but not had chance to watch the videos yet

UncleRuckus · 16 Oct 2011 at 00:36

AHarvey said:
Anyone watched the tutorial videos yet?

I signed up for the basic course due to time constraints, but not had chance to watch the videos yet

Yep watched the first part, pretty light so far, but it has really given me lots of ideas on how to implement AI in games.

Ranked1_of_1 · 16 Oct 2011 at 01:23

I submitted my homework earlier today.

The course has been quite straightforward so far, but some of the homework questions were worded poorly. I feel as though I understand the theory so far, but not confident I've understood the scenarios in the questions. On the forums there is quite a lot of people that seem to be in the same boat.

The videos have been fine though. It's good to be able to replay videos on topics you aren't sure about. I think this way of delivering courses has potential.

yer_averagejoe · 17 Oct 2011 at 20:50

I feel the same way. Understand the material.. but homework questions weren't too clear so I don't feel that confident. Have been through it again though and can't improve on the answers I've already given. Going well so far! Though I'm already familiar with pathfinding (search) algorithms. Real test will be this week for me, with entirely new material.

Edit: 96% on first homework

. Anyway to find out what I got wrong?