1. Preliminaries

Learning Objectives

Talk about recent history in artificial intelligence

Mention mathematics prerequisites

Pick a programming language

Generative AI

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AI Landscape

areas for artificial intelligence

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Math

Math Topics

Gradients and their relation to local minima/maxima

The chain rule for differentiation

Matrices as linear transformations for vectors

Notions of basis/rank/span/independence/etc.

calculus

linear algebra

Programming

Python

C++

CUDA

Python

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