Machine Learning  
Overview/Description  
Target Audience  
Prerequisites  
Expected Duration  
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Course Number  
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Overview/Description 
Sometimes agents must learn how to associate certain conditions with actions and outcomes. In this course, you will learn some of the principles of machine learning and how to use it to make smarter agents.
Target Audience 
Anyone interested in artificial intelligence and how it can be used to solve many problems
Prerequisites 
None
Expected Duration (hours) 
0.8
Lesson Objectives Machine Learning 
start the course 
describe how AI learns and the different types of machine learning 
describe how examples can be used for learning 
describe decision trees and how the model expresses knowledge 
describe entropy and information gain for learning decision tree models 
describe how to choose attributes to learn a decision tree 
describe overfitting and how decision tree models can be made to mitigate this issue 
describe neural networks and how they apply to artificial intelligence 
describe the structure of a neural network and its individual neurons 
list some of the common types of neural networks and what problems they might be good at solving 
describe how machine learning works with a perceptron 
describe how perceptron learning can be generalized to a multilayered neural network 
describe convolutional neural networks 
describe recurrent neural networks 
describe how a perceptron can learn how to achieve a particular result given a set of examples 
Course Number: sd_exai_a06_it_enus
Expertise Level 
Beginner