Teaching Artificial Intelligence to a young public

Duration: 3 hours on Zoom

Teaching AI to the youngs  

1. What is AI? Definitions, examples and applications
2. Why teach AI to everybody?
3. What level of detail should we teach
4. How to make it intuitive: the innovations of the AlphAI robots

Teaching AI with the AlphAI robot 

1. Supervised Learning: training and using a model
   
2. The K nearest neighbors algorithm
   
3. Introduction to neural networks
   
4. Reinforcement Learning: reward-based learning
   
5. The Deep Q-learning algorithm
   

About Thomas Deneux, the trainer  

Thomas Deneux is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure (France highest rank University) in Mathematics. He holds of a PhD in Computer Science in the field of computer vision, studied during his post-doctoral research in experimental neurobiology the functional organization of neuronal assemblies in rodents. Today he is a Researcher at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) in the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience. He created the educational robot AlphAI to teach Artificial Intelligence at all levels, and founded the company Learning Robots that commercializes it (http://learningrobots.ai).