CS 123 Course Materials

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Syllabus Getting Started Guide

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

This course provides a non-technical overview of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Topics include classical symbolic AI, machine learning and generative AI. The way different types of AI work will be explained at a conceptual level and practical applications will be described. Ethical issues, risks and potential benefits of using AI are also discussed.

Lecture Notes

1: Overview of AI
- Overview of AI, Part 1
- Overview of AI, Part 2
2: Problem Solving with Symbolic AI
3: Machine Learning Part 1
- AI Problem Solving Revisited
- Machine Learning: Bayes' Rule
4: Machine Learning Part 2
- More Machine Learning.
5: History of AI
- Hisotry of AI
6: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- Artificial Neural Networks
7: Generative AI
- Generative AI
- 8: Prompt Engineering
  - Prompt Engineering
- 9: Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Custom Chatbots
  - Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  - Custom Chatbots with Copilot Studio
- 10: Social and Ethical Issues of AI
  - Benefits and Dangers of AI
  - The Future of AI

Links to Useful Resources

General Resources

Zoom
Discord
Azure For Students—Sign up for a free account
Azure Portal—The Microsoft cloud
Microsoft Copilot Studio—Create custom chatbots

LCC Resources

Online Books and Tutorials

Elements of AI—Online course
Think: Artificial Intelligence—IBM tutorials

Generative AI Tools

ChatGPT by OpenAI—Chatbot
Claude by Anthropic—Chatbot
Copilot by Microsoft—Chatbot
Image Creator by Microsoft—Image generator
Gemeini by Google—Chatbot and image generator
Meta AI by Facebook's parent—Chatbot and image generator
Text to Music—Avia
Text to Video—Runway

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Lecture Notes

1: Overview of AI

2: Problem Solving with Symbolic AI

3: Machine Learning Part 1

4: Machine Learning Part 2

5: History of AI

6: Neural Networks and Deep Learning

7: Generative AI

8: Prompt Engineering

9: Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Custom Chatbots

10: Social and Ethical Issues of AI

Links to Useful Resources

General Resources

LCC Resources

Online Books and Tutorials

Generative AI Tools

Course Chatbot