Week 1: Introduction to AI and Its Applications
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What is AI? History & Evolution
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Types of AI: Narrow vs. General
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Real-world AI: Healthcare, Finance, Gaming, Business
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Mini Project: Build a simple rule-based chatbot
Week 2: Machine Learning Essentials
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Supervised, Unsupervised & Reinforcement Learning
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Key Concepts: Features, Labels, Training, Overfitting
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Intro to Python libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn
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Lab: Predict housing prices using linear regression
Week 3: Deep Learning Fundamentals
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Neural Networks Explained (perceptrons, activation, backprop)
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CNNs, RNNs, Transformers (overview only)
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TensorFlow & PyTorch basics
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Lab: Image classification with CNN (MNIST)
Week 4: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
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Text Preprocessing: Tokenization, Stopwords, Lemmatization
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Embeddings: Word2Vec, BERT
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Introduction to Prompt Engineering
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Project: Sentiment analysis using HuggingFace Transformers
Week 5: Building AI-Powered Applications
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OpenAI API (ChatGPT, DALL·E)
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LangChain basics (memory, tools, agents)
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AI for Search, Summarization, Chatbots
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Mini Project: Build an AI-based travel assistant
Week 6: Ethics, Safety & Future of AI
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AI Bias, Privacy, and Regulations
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Responsible AI & Explainability
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Trends: AutoML, AGI, Open Source Models
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Capstone Project: Create an AI application (your choice)
🎯 Key Features
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Hands-on labs in Google Colab or Jupyter Notebooks
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Video lectures with downloadable notes
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Certificate of Completion
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Optional access to a private Discord server for Q&A