AI foundations courses and concepts

Artificial intelligence is the field of computer science that builds systems to do tasks that normally need human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognizing images and making decisions. For its first decades the field mostly built those systems from rules written by hand; most AI today instead learns patterns from large amounts of data, which lets it handle cases no one wrote a rule for, though its output can still be wrong. AI systems in use today are narrow, each built for one task or a limited set of tasks, and AI that could handle any intellectual task a person can is still hypothetical. Learning the basics means understanding how these systems learn and where they fail, and telling apart the terms used to describe them, such as machine learning, deep learning and generative AI.