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AI Introduction - Class Notes
Course: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Semester: 6
Instructor: Prof. Rahul Shetty
Unit 1: What is AI?
Artificial Intelligence is the science of making machines think and act like
humans.
Unit 2: Types of AI
Narrow AI: Specific tasks (e.g., Siri)
General AI: Human-level thinking (still evolving)
Super AI: Hypothetical advanced intelligence
Unit 3: Applications of AI
Healthcare (Diagnosis, Drug Discovery)
Finance (Fraud Detection)
E-commerce (Chatbots, Recommendation Systems)
Robotics, Gaming, Education
Unit 4: Subfields of AI
Machine Learning (ML): Learning from data
Natural Language Processing (NLP): Language understanding
Computer Vision: Interpreting images
Expert Systems: Decision-making mimicking human experts
Tools & Libraries:
Python, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn
Prepared by: Mohammed Shadhath