Introduction To AI
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1: Introduction

Chapter 1 - Course Introduction
1 - Course Introduction
2. What is AI?

Chapter 2 - What Is AI?
2 - Part 1 : What is AI?
2 - Part 2 : How To Test For AI
2 - Part 3 : Ok, So What is AI?
3. Why Now?

Chapter 3 - Why Now?
3 - Part 1 : Why Now? - Introduction
3 - Part 2 : Advances In AI
3 - Part 3 : Further Reasons
4. AI for playing Games

Chapter 4 - AI for Playing Games
4 - Part 1 : AI for Games - Introduction
4 - Part 2 : Introducing Game Trees
4 - Part 3 : Playing an Opponent
4 - Part 4 : Getting smarter with search
4 - Part 5 : Self-Play and MonteCarlo Search
5. Natural Language Processing

Chapter 5 - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
5 - Part 1 : NLP - Introduction
5 - Part 2 : Representing Words and your first Machine Learning algorithm
5 - Part 3 : What are Embeddings?
5 - Part 4 : Generating Text
6. Neural Networks

Chapter 6 - Neural Networks
6 - Part 1 : Introduction and Perceptrons
6 - Part 2 : Training a Perceptron
6 - Part 3 : Linking Neurons - Building Larger Networks
6 - Part 4: Long Short-Term Memory Networks
7. Reinforcement Learning

Chapter 7 - Reinforcement Learning
7 - Part 1 : Reinforcement Learning - Introduction
7 - Part 2 : Q-Learning - Escaping Mazes!
7 - Part 3 : Beyond Mazes
8. Large Language Models and ChatGPT

Chapter 8 - Large Language Models and ChatGPT
8 - Part 1 : Introduction and Transformer Model Encoders
8 - Part 2 : Decoders and Large Language Models
9. Getting more out of Large Language Models and AI applications

Chapter 9 - Getting more out of LLMs: Grounding, Tools, Agents, and Prompting strategies
9 - Part 1 : Getting more out of LLMs
9 - Part 2 : Demystifying LLM tooling, RAG, MCP, and Agents
10. Computer Vision and Image Generation

Chapter 10 - Computer Vision and Image Generation
10 - Part 1 : How AI understands images
10 - Part 2 : Learning Image Features
10 - Part 3 : How to generate images and videos
11. A World with AI - AI in Society and Business

Chapter 11 - A world with AI: AI in Society and Business
11 - Part 1 : A world with AI - Introduction
11- Part 2 : AI in business in context
11 - Part 3 : Role Evolution and Business Adoption
12. AI Risks and Regulation

Chapter 12 - Risks and Regulation.pdf
12 - Part 1 : Framing the risks
12- Part 2 : Red Teaming, Regulation and the AI opportunity
13. Course Summary

Course Summary
Course Summary

10. Computer Vision and Image Generation

Perhaps the most impressive AI today is the ability to create images and videos. This technology is already impressive, but also still somewhat in it's infancy.

Like all other aspects of modern AI, the success didn't happen overnight, and it's based on years of previous research.

As you can imagine, generating images and video isn't the simplest of tasks, but with your knowledge of previous chapters we are able to introduce some more concepts and explain at a reasonably detailed level just how that magic works.

We'll introduce Convolutional Neural Networks, which you won't be hugely surprised to hear builds on the earlier Neural Networks chapter, and combined with your knowledge of encoder/decoders from Chapter 8, we can outline how you can type in some text, and an image of what you asked for appears.

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