Video course · 15 chapters · 638 min · certificate
Master AI Concepts: Neural Networks, CNNs, RNNs & NLP
Master core AI concepts: what AI is, deep learning, convolutional neural networks with padding and filters, recurrent neural networks and word embeddings, and NLP from named entity recognition to pipelines, lemmatization, parsing and hands-on projects.
What you'll learn
- Explain AI and deep learning fundamentals
- Describe how CNNs work, including padding and filters
- Explain RNNs, activation functions and memory
- Use word embeddings for meaning
- Build an NLP pipeline with lemmatization and POS tagging
- Apply NLP in hands-on projects
Chapters
15 chapters · 637:50-
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01Foundations Members
What is AI?
From searching Google to asking ChatGPT: what AI is, with examples like healthcare AI.
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85:11
02Deep learning Members
Introduction to deep learning
Neural networks, hidden layers as black boxes, and handling scaled or stretched images.
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40:30
03CNN Members
Convolutional neural networks
Why CNNs are needed and how they work, explained simply.
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29:36
04CNN Members
CNN architecture
Image size and pixels, the journey of CNNs and the architecture overview.
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23:57
05Padding Members
Applying networks and padding
Valid padding (no padding) and the effect of stride.
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105:19
06Padding Members
Types of padding
Why padding matters across many layers.
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19:48
07Filters Members
Filter values
How filter values are learned rather than hand-set.
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63:39
08RNN Members
Recurrent neural networks
RNNs process sequences; transformers aren't RNN-based.
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39:27
09Embeddings Members
RNN architecture and embeddings
RNN structure and word embeddings that capture meaning.
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25:37
10RNN Members
Tanh, memory and RNN summary
Why tanh is used, internal memory and contextual understanding.
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40:01
11NLP Members
Named entity recognition
Finding names of people, places and organizations in text.
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22:41
12NLP Members
NLP and NLG
Natural language processing versus generation, and critical steps.
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33:31
13Pipeline Members
The NLP pipeline and lemmatization
Pipeline steps including stemming and lemmatization.
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36:17
14Analysis Members
Stop words, parsing and POS tagging
Stop word removal, dependency parsing and part-of-speech tagging.
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41:56
15Projects Members
Hands-on NLP and project ideas
Hands-on NLP work and AI project ideas.