MAM5020F — Generative AI for Research
AI History and Mathematical Foundations
A Seminar on the Evolution and Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence
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This is a seminar that I gave some time back showing some of the history of AI and talking a little bit about the mathematical ideas that go into it. The presentation covers key developments in artificial intelligence from its foundations through modern approaches, with some attention paid to the mathematical preliminaries that enable these technologies.
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