Basics of AI and Foundations
Track New Collar
Duration 30 hours
Skill Level Beginner
Language English

About this Course

Learn the core principles behind AI systems, from rule-based logic to data-driven learning.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Objectives
  • Introduction to AI
  • History of AI
  • History of AI
  • Definition and its importance
  • Definition and its importance
  • What is Generative AI?
  • What is Generative AI?
  • Teaching machines to mimic human intelligence
  • Teaching machines to mimic human intelligence
  • Understanding the basics of AI
  • Concept of ‘Intelligence’
  • Concept of ‘Intelligence’
  • Machine Intelligence
  • Machine Intelligence
  • Types of AI
  • Narrow AI
  • Narrow AI
  • General AI
  • General AI
  • Super intelligent AI
  • Super intelligent AI
  • Components of AI
  • Understanding how machines learn from data
  • Understanding how machines learn from data
  • Power of ‘Reasoning’
  • Power of ‘Reasoning’
  • The ability of problem-solving
  • The ability of problem-solving
  • Discussing how machines interpret sensory information
  • Discussing how machines interpret sensory information
  • Linguistic Intelligence
  • Linguistic Intelligence
  • Perception and Computer Vision
  • Perception and Computer Vision
  • Robotics and Motion
  • Robotics and Motion
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Planning and Navigation
  • Planning and Navigation
  • Ethics in AI
  • The 3 key areas of AI ethics
  • The 3 key areas of AI ethics
  • Privacy and data protection
  • Privacy and data protection
  • Bias and discrimination
  • Bias and discrimination
  • How to establish AI ethics?
  • How to establish AI ethics?
  • Sustainability in AI
  • Sustainability in AI
  • Recap and outcome
  • FAQs
  • Summary
  • Objectives
  • Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Key components and processes of Machine Learning
  • Key components and processes of Machine Learning
  • How Algorithms work in Machine Learning?
  • How Algorithms work in Machine Learning?
  • Applications of Machine Learning
  • Applications of Machine Learning
  • Benefits and drawbacks of Machine Learning
  • Benefits and drawbacks of Machine Learning
  • Introduction to Deep Learning
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Structure and components of Artificial Neural Networks
  • Structure and components of Artificial Neural Networks
  • Overview of Neural Network types
  • Overview of Neural Network types
  • Benefits and drawbacks of Deep Learning
  • Benefits and drawbacks of Deep Learning
  • Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Applications of NLP in Machine Learning
  • Applications of NLP in Machine Learning
  • Introduction to Computer Vision
  • Technologies involved in Computer Vision
  • Technologies involved in Computer Vision
  • Introduction to Cognitive Computing
  • Benefits of Cognitive Computing
  • Benefits of Cognitive Computing
  • Summary
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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