DS817: Algorithms we live by
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Course introduction
We will examine scenarios where humans are assisted by artificial intelligence, and problems where humans compete against algorithms. Further, we will discuss whether human cognitive processes can be recovered from the behavioral traces that people leave behind on the Internet; Finally, we will look at problems where human intelligence can provide insights and inspiration for the development of new methods in the quest for better AI agents.
The acquired competencies will be useful for people planning to work as product managers, data analysts or data scientists in the industry. The course builds and expands knowledge acquired in the core courses of the program, and provides entry level introduction on a number of important topics in data science (i.e. recommender systems, social network analysis, reinforcement learning, machine learning with humans in the loop, natural language processing). Some, of these topics might be revisited in greater depth in other elective topics of the program.
Expected learning outcome
Content
- The exploration-exploitation trade-off: when should people or algorithms try new things and when should they settle for tested courses of action?
- Supervised learning and the bias/variance dilemma: what are the main approaches in estimation and categorization in machine learning?
- What does it mean for a model to overfit the data?
- What are good ways to get around this problem?
- Unsupervised learning and natural language processing: Can AI learn without a teacher telling it what is right or wrong?
- How can this be achieved?
- What techniques where used in Deep Blue when it won Kasparov?
- What techniques did IBM use to win in Jeopardy?
- Similarly, what type of AI algorithms were used by Deepmind to win human champions in the game of Go?
- How can humans and machines effectively combine their distinct intelligences?
- What can big data teach us about human behavior?
- How are our data used by companies to personalize their products to us?
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Written exam
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Examination aids
The exam is without aids. However, standard build in calculator in Windows/MAC are allowed. It is also allowed to use Maple, Mathematica, Mathcad, MathLab, GeoGebra Apps, R, R-Studio, CAS TI-Nspire, Ms Excel og LibreOffice Calc. WordMat is allowed but not recommended. Use of WordMat is at your own risk and no support is provided for errors caused by the program. Furthermore, it is also allowed to use "ordbogsprogrammet" (the dictionary programme) from http://www.ordbogen.com/ in electronic form. The browser version is not allowed.
Internet is not allowed during the exam. However, you may visit system "DE-Digital Exam".
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Teaching Method
- Intro and Skills training phase: 12 lectures ( 24 hours in the class)
- 72 preparation for the lectures
- 38 hours preparation for the exams
Study phase activities: Relevant papers and other resources will be highlighted in the syllabus, and the students will be invited to read the before and after the lectures.
Teacher responsible
Name | Department | |
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Pantelis Pipergias Analytis | pantelis@sam.sdu.dk | Strategic Organization Design (SOD) |