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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (5 cr)

Code: TT00CO51-3002

General information


Enrollment

04.12.2024 - 13.01.2025

Timing

13.01.2025 - 30.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • English

Seats

0 - 60

Teachers

  • Golnaz Sahebi

Groups

  • PTIETS23deai
    Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
  • PTIVIS23I
    Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
- Understand what the artificial intelligence is
- Explain the basic concepts of artificial intelligence
- Describe the fields of artificial intelligence
- Describe the machine learning process

Content

Introduction to artificial intelligence (AI)
Problem solving and search algorithms
Introduction to machine learning
Ethical and social implications of AI

Materials

+ Course book: (preplan)

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Authors: Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
Publisher: Pearson; 4th Edition (April 28, 2020).

Note: the instructor will cover some parts of this book according to the course topics and instructions, which will be announced in the first session.

+ The course also has some extra reading material, videos, and slides which will be announced during the course and available via the learning environment (ITS).

Teaching methods

+ Lectures: The instructor will deliver approximately 10 lectures on the course topics using slides, videos, exercise, seminar, and final project demonstrations. In addition, 3 lectures will be delivered by our guest lecturers from TUAS different research groups or external companies to cover the applications of AI in autonomous driving and wireless communications, healthcare, gaming, and business.

+ Assignments: Students will complete several assignments that involve problem-solving, critical thinking, and programming exercises.

+ Seminar presentation: Students will present a 15-minutes seminar in a group of 2-4 about the Future of AI including current trends and advancements in AI, AI in research and development, Ethical, legal, and societal challenges in the future.

+ Exam: Students will attend the final exam

Exam schedules

+ Exam in Week 16.
+ Retake exam in May 2025.

Student workload

+ Contact hours
- 13 times 3h theory and practice: 13 x 3h = 39hours
+ Home work: approximately 69 hours
+ Seminar: approximately 10 hours
+ Exam preparation and participation: approximately 15 hours

Total: approximately 130 ho

Content scheduling

Course Topics and Scheduling (pre-planning):
week 03: Introduction to AI: history, definitions, and applications.
week 04: Problem-solving methods in AI and Intelligent Agents
week 05: State Space Search Algorithms
week 06: Exercise Demonstrations I
week 07: Basics of Machine Learning
week 08: Winter Break
week 09: Data preprocessing for ML algorithms
week 10: Supervised Learning: training and evaluation of some supervised ML models like linear regression and logistic regression.
week 11: Ethical and Social Implications of AI + Exercise Demonstrations II
week 12-14: Applications of AI in Real-World Problems
week 15: Seminars presentations in groups of 2-4
week 16: Exam

Further information

Additional information is share via ITS

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

You can achieve points from participation, exercises, and exam:
- 20% points from participation
- 50% points from practical exercises in class room and home work
- 30% points from the exam

Assessment:
- Participation and exercise (50% of total to pass): Students must achieve at least 50% of the points to pass the course.
- Exam (50% of total points to pass): Students must achieve at least 50% of the points in order to pass the course.

The course is graded on a scale of 0-5.
Grading will be according to the total points collected by the student during the course as well as the exam.
1: 50% (minimum to pass the course)
2: 60-70%
3: 70-80%
4: 80-90%
5: 90- 100%

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Less than 50% points

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

50 - 69% points

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

70 - 89% points

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

At least 90% points