MSAI: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence:

WLL05: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence

Backdrop:

We are now in the 4th Industrial Age and while Artificial Intelligence has been compared to being the new electricity, it’s availability through the cloud and mobile devices is much more universal.

Since AI helps automate tasks which were earlier done by humans, it’s potential to enhance almost all human activities is enormous, and that is why we have adopted an “AI for all” policy, rather than AI for a privileged few.

This is an introductory one month ( 4 weeks) course for anyone who is curious to know what are the various aspects of AI. That is why it has been given the title ” Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence”. Throughout the course, there will be links to and information about books, articles and videos to learn more.

This course is therefore a fascinating introduction for the curious, with substantial guidance on more for the serious.

This course in somewhat varying formats has been delivered to almost a thousand learners with diverse educational and professional profiles, including some School going students as well.

This course is an attempt to help form a realistic perspective, in this climate of the hype around the topic. The better we understand AI, the greater the sense of awe at the sheer complexity of the brain, and the amazing algorithms that nature has devised to solve one of the hardest problems known to man. What we see around us are examples of ‘ narrow AI’ or ‘weak AI’. But the quest for ‘strong AI’ is going to be a long journey…. but it’s perhaps the greatest scientific voyage that we can take now….

The flow of posts for this program is:

Monday Day 1: The origins and the present landscape of AI:

1.1: A brief history of evolution of AI

1.2: The Turing test

1.3: Simple automation, algorithmic automation and intelligent automation

1.4: AI and allied ( sometimes confused) terms

1.5: Narrow Intelligence, General Intelligence & Super Intelligence

Tuesday Day2: AI, Machine learning and Deep learning

2.1: The relationship between AI, ML and DL

2.2: Approaches to machine learning

2.3: The search for a master algorithm

2.4: Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks

2.5: The Mathematics underlying Machine Learning

Thursday Day 3: Generic AI tools:

3.1: Recommendation Engines

3.2: Predictive models

3.3: Speech Recognition

3.4: Natural Language Processing

3.5: Computer Vision

Wednesday Day 4: Application areas:

4.1: AI and Marketing

4.2: AI and Finance

4.3: AI and Healthcare

4.4: AI and Agriculture

4.5: AI and autonomous transportation

Friday Day 5: AI and Social Good

5.1: The future of work and human dignity

5.2: AI and SDGs ( Sustainable Development Goals)

5.3: World economic forum on ethical issues in AI

5.4: AI and bias

5.5: AI in the foreseeable future

Methodology:

These courses are offered through WhatsApp that can be easily accessed with a mobile hone on the scheduled week ( Monday to Friday ) of the month. Expression of interest in joining the course can be made on any day, and all requests received upto 12 noon on the Sunday before the schedule of the course will be placed in a cohort that would begin on the following Monday.

Registration:

To register for this course:

First pay the fee of Rs 2500/- by PayTM to MM Pant ( mobile number : +919810073724).

Then send a Whatsapp message to MM Pant ( +919810073724) with the following information :

1: Your Name : First and Last

2: Mobile phone number linked to Whatsapp

3: Course Code and course name:

4: PayTM transaction number/ screenshot

5: Your brief profile ( optional). There will be an opportunity to briefly introduce yourself within the group also.

For those who would rather pay into a Bank account, the relevant information is :

Madan Mohan Pant

HDFC Bank, Unitech Cyber Park, Sector 39, Gurgaon

A/c 26451000000301

HDFC0002645

(The account number is 26451 followed by six zeroes followed by 301)

——————————————-

To seek any clarification or for further information, please send a Whatsapp message to Prof. MM Pant at +919810073724

About mmpant

Prof. M.M.Pant has a Ph.D in Computational Physics, along with a Professional Law Degree, and has been a practitioner in the fields of Law, IT enabled education and IT implementation. Drawing upon his experience in world class international institutions and having taught in various modes of Face-to-Face, Distance Learning and Technology Enhanced Training, Prof. Pant is now exploring the nature of institutions which will be successors to the IITs, which represented the 1960s, IIMs, which represented the 1970 and Open Universities which were the rage of 1980s & 90s. He believes that the convergence between various media and technologies would fundamentally alter the way learning would be created, packaged, and delivered to learners. His current activities are all directed toward actual implementation of these new age educational initiatives that transform education in the post Internet post WTO era.. Prof. Pant, has been a Former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and has been on the faculty of IIT – Kanpur (the premier Engineering institution in India), MLNR Engineering College and Faculty & Visiting Professor - University of Western Ontario-Canada. He has been visiting scientist to research centers in Italy, England, Germany & Sweden and has delivered international lectures with about 80 papers published. During his association of almost 15 years with the IGNOU, Prof. Pant has served as the Director Computing and has been the Member of All Bodies (i.e. School boards, Academic council, Planning board, Finance committee and the Board of management). With his interest in Law, backed with practice of Law in a High Court, and his basic training in Science and IT, Prof. Pant has been particularly interested in the Cyber Law, Patent & trade mark issues, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues etc. and has been involved with many activities, conferences on “Law & IT” Prof. Pant is presently; • Advisor to Media Lab Asia - Chairman of working group on ICT for Education, chairman of PRSG handling projects on ICT for education. • Lead Consultant for an ADB funded project for ICT in Basic Education in Uzbekistan • Member of the drafting Group for India’s National Policy on ICT in education • Chairman of the group creating books for class 11 and 12 students on ‘Computers and Communication Technology’ appointed by the NCERT • Preparing a ‘Theme Paper” for the NCTE in the area of ICT and Teacher Training • Advisor and mentor to several leading Indian and Multi-national Companies in the area of education. Prof. Pant has in the recent past been ; • Member – Board of Management – I I T, Delhi for 6 years (two consecutive terms) • One-man committee to create the Project Report & Legislation for Delhi IT-enabled Open University • Advisor to the Delhi Government on Asian Network of Major Cities Project (ANMC-21) distance learning project in association with Tokyo Metropolitan Government. • Chairman Board of Studies, All India Management Association With his mission to create and implement new business opportunities in the area of e-learning & learning facilitation, Prof. Pant has promoted Planet EDU Pvt. Ltd., as its Founder & Chairman, along with a team of highly experienced and skilled professionals from Education & Training, Operations, IT and Finance.

View all posts by mmpant →

This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.