Admission requirements
none.
Description
This course provides an introduction to artificial intelligence, starting from the question what AI actually is (which does not have a trivial answer). We aim at obtaining a high level overview and go over the different areas of AI research, including but not limited to search, planning, and learning, up to creativity tools from generative AI and multi-agent systems. We will illustrate many of these with famous success stories as e.g. AlphaGo or AlphaFold.
The course adopts a hands-on approach to playing around with AI algorithms and tools, mostly using Python.
Course objectives
Upon successful completion, students will be able to:
understand and differentiate different basic AI approaches
apply existing AI tools to new problems/tasks
perform experiments with AI tools, report and discuss the results
compare different AI based solutions for the same problem (including statistics)
Timetable
You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have sucessfully registered for in MyStudyMap will automatically be displayed in MyTimeTable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.
MyTimetable allows you to integrate your timetable with your calendar apps such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and other calendar apps on your smartphone. Any timetable changes will be automatically synced with your calendar. If you wish, you can also receive an email notification of the change. You can turn notifications on in ‘Settings’ (after login).
For more information, watch the video or go the the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Please note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.
Mode of instruction
lectures
in-lecture quizzes
group projects (assignments)
labs
homeworks
The emphasis focusses on lectures/homeworks at the start, then exam, then moves over to assignments.
Assessment method
The course assessment details are as follows:
exam 40%
4 group based assignments 50%
in-lecture quizzes or homeworks 10%
Please note that the grade for a non-completed assignment is 0.
Group work is an integral part of the course. You will be expected to form a team in the first week of the course and complete the group assignments in your team (team changes are possible but not encouraged).
There will be separate retakes for the exam, and for the assignments. The latter probably not for every single assignment but as an additional assignment (likely single-person based) that can then replace any of the original assignments.
students fail the course if the overal grade is below 6.0.
the final grade is expressed as a whole or half number between 1.0 and 10.0, including both limits. The result is not to be expressed as a number between 5.0 and 6.0.
partial grades, inclusive the exam grade will not be rounded. If partial grades will be communicated, it is possible partial grades are rounded, but unrounded partial grades will be used in the calculation of the final grade. The final grade will be rounded at 0.5 (5.49 will rounded down to a 5 and a 5.5 will be rounded up to a 6.0).
Students pass the course if the final grade is 6.0 or higher (5.49 will rounded down to a 5 and a 5.5 will be rounded up to a 6.0).
Students who are entitled to more exam/retake time must report to info@sbb.leidenuniv.nl 10 days before the exam/retake takes place.
Reading list
Reading list will be announced.
Registration
Every student has to register for courses with the new enrollment tool MyStudyMap. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found here.
Contact
For all your questions you can contact Education coordinator LIACS bachelors
Remarks
students are responsible for enrolling/unenrolling themselves for (partial) exams/retakes.
students who do not enroll themselves for an exam/retake by the deadline are not allowed to take the exam/retake.