The Basics of AI and Deep Learning.

 The day a machine defeated one of the world's masters of the game Go, or Baduk, the world watched in amazement. Some feared machines would dominate humankind, while others dreamed of the utopia of a post-labor world. Everyone’s talking about AI, but how much do we actually know about it?

 Yoshua Bengio, considered one of the godfathers of AI, visited out lecture to explain AI in a way that makes it easier to digest. The technical nature of AI is a topic we avoid because of the complexity of understanding we fear, but this lecture series guides us to a level of understanding that will increase our comfort in talking about this topic.

 You can’t talk about AI without mentioning deep learning. This technology, which Yoshua Bengio helped develop, brought about the AI revolution. After reading a paper by Geoffrey Hinton, he says he realized the limitless possibilities of artificial neural networks. And for Bengio’s work in the development of deep learning, he received the Turing Award, considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” together with Hinton and Yann LeCun. Bengio delivers his lectures in a way that anyone can comprehend. Rather than using esoteric language, he presents ideas and examples in an accessible way. If you want to understand the fundamentals of AI and deep learning, don't miss this special lecture series from Yoshua Bengio: “How does AI Think?”