In alignment with BCS AI Foundation and Essentials certificates, this introductory guide provides the understanding you need to start building artificial intelligence (AI) capability into your organisation. You will learn how AI is being utilised today to support products, services, science and engineering, and how it is likely to be used in the future to balance the talents of humans and machines. You will explore robotics and machine learning within the context of AI, and discover how the challenges AI presents are being addressed. You will delve into the theory behind AI and machine learning projects, examining techniques for learning from data, the use of neural networks and why algorithms are so important in the development of a new AI agent or system.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Ethical and Sustainable Human and Artificial AI
2. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
3. Applying The Benefits of AI and Identifying Challenges and Risks
4. Starting AI - How to Build A Machine Learning Toolbox
5. Algorithms
6. The Management, Roles and Responsibilities of Humans and Machines
7. AI in Use in Industry - Reimagining Everything in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
8. AI Case Studies

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