AI for Beginners: What is AI, Anyway? Demystifying the Basics – Ep 1

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What is AI, Anyway? Demystifying the Basics

References

• Auxier, B., & Anderson, M. (2023). AI and Americans’ daily lives. Pew Research Center.
• McCarthy, J., Minsky, M. L., Rochester, N., & Shannon, C. E. (2006). A proposal for the Dartmouth summer research project on artificial intelligence, August 31, 1955. AI Magazine, 27(4), 12.  
• Metz, C. (2023, May 16). How A.I. is changing the way we shop online. The New York Times. [invalid URL removed]
• Rajpurkar, P., Irvin, J., Zhu, K., Yang, B., Mehta, H., Duan, T., … & Langlotz, C. P. (2017). Chexnet: Radiologist-level pneumonia detection on chest x-rays with deep learning. Nature, 544(7651), 317-321.
• Silver, D., Huang, A., Maddison, C. J., Guez, A., Sifre, L., Van Den Driessche, G., … & Hassabis, D. (2016). Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. Nature, 529(7587), 484-489.  

Additional Resources

• Books:
  • Russell, S. J., & Norvig, P. (2021). Artificial intelligence: A modern approach (4th ed.). Pearson.
  • Tegmark, M. (2017). Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence. Knopf.
• Online Courses:
  • Coursera: “AI for Everyone” by Andrew Ng
  • edX: “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)” by Microsoft
  • fast.ai: “Practical Deep Learning for Coders”
• Websites:
  • AI Now Institute: https://ainowinstitute.org/
  • Partnership on AI: https://www.partnershiponai.org/

JR

JR is the founder of AI Innovations Unleashed—an educational podcast and consulting platform helping educators, leaders, and curious minds harness AI to build smarter learning environments. He has 22 year of project management experience (PMP certified) and an AI strategist who translates complex tech into practical, future-focused insights. Connect with him on LinkedIn, Medium, Substack, and X—or visit him @ aiinnovationsunleashed.com.

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