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Deep Learning & the Frontier

From how networks learn to where AI is going.

L4 · ExpertEvolvingKnown~3 h

What you’ll learn

  • Explain how backpropagation computes gradients and how a network learns
  • Describe how multimodal models align images and text in a shared space
  • Explain reinforcement learning: reward, return, value, and Q-learning
  • Describe the sense-plan-act loop and why the physical world is hard
  • Separate KNOWN, EMERGING, and SPECULATIVE claims about quantum and frontier AI
  • Distinguish automation, workflow, agent, and multi-agent systems

Prerequisites

ai-foundations

Module 1. Learning Machines

How networks learn, how they span modalities, and how they learn from reward.

Module 2. The Frontier

Embodied AI, quantum machine learning, and the autonomous-agent frontier, labelled by evidence.