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Artificial Intelligence for Beginners - A Curriculum

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Explore di world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) wit our 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum! E get practical lessons, quizzes, and labs. Di curriculum dey beginner-friendly and e cover tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch, plus ethics inside AI

🌐 Multi-Language Support

Supported via GitHub Action (Automated & Always Up-to-Date)

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You prefer make you Clone am for your machine?

Dis repo get 50+ language translations wey go make di download size big well-well. If you want clone am without translations, use sparse checkout:

Bash / macOS / Linux:

git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/AI-For-Beginners.git
cd AI-For-Beginners
git sparse-checkout set --no-cone '/*' '!translations' '!translated_images'

CMD (Windows):

git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/microsoft/AI-For-Beginners.git
cd AI-For-Beginners
git sparse-checkout set --no-cone "/*" "!translations" "!translated_images"

Dis go give you everything to complete di course wey go download sharp-sharp.

If you wan make we support more translation languages, you fit find dem here

Join di Community

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Wetin you go learn

Mindmap of the Course

For dis curriculum, you go learn:

  • Different waya dem dey take handle Artificial Intelligence, including di "good old" symbolic way with Knowledge Representation and reasoning (GOFAI).
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning, wey be di core of modern AI. We go show the basic tin dem for dis important topics by using code inside two of di most popular frameworks - TensorFlow and PyTorch.
  • Neural Architectures for workin wit images and text. We go cover recent models but fit be e no too dey up-to-date on state-of-the-art.
  • Less popular AI ways, like Genetic Algorithms and Multi-Agent Systems.

Wetin we no go cover for dis curriculum:

Find all additional resources for this course in our Microsoft Learn collection

For gentle introduction to AI in the Cloud topics, you fit consider to take the Get started with artificial intelligence on Azure Learning Path.

Content

Lesson Link PyTorch/Keras/TensorFlow Lab
0 Course Setup Setup Your Development Environment
I Introduction to AI
01 Introduction and History of AI - -
II Symbolic AI
02 Knowledge Representation and Expert Systems Expert Systems / Ontology /Concept Graph
III Introduction to Neural Networks
03 Perceptron Notebook Lab
04 Multi-Layered Perceptron and Creating our own Framework Notebook Lab
05 Intro to Frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow) and Overfitting PyTorch / Keras / TensorFlow Lab
IV Computer Vision PyTorch / TensorFlow Explore Computer Vision on Microsoft Azure
06 Intro to Computer Vision. OpenCV Notebook Lab
07 Convolutional Neural Networks & CNN Architectures PyTorch /TensorFlow Lab
08 Pre-trained Networks and Transfer Learning and Training Tricks PyTorch / TensorFlow Lab
09 Autoencoders and VAEs PyTorch / TensorFlow
10 Generative Adversarial Networks & Artistic Style Transfer PyTorch / TensorFlow
11 Object Detection TensorFlow Lab
12 Semantic Segmentation. U-Net PyTorch / TensorFlow
V Natural Language Processing PyTorch /TensorFlow Explore Natural Language Processing on Microsoft Azure
13 Text Representation. Bow/TF-IDF PyTorch / TensorFlow
14 Semantic word embeddings. Word2Vec and GloVe PyTorch / TensorFlow
15 Language Modeling. Training your own embeddings PyTorch / TensorFlow Lab
16 Recurrent Neural Networks PyTorch / TensorFlow
17 Generative Recurrent Networks PyTorch / TensorFlow Lab
18 Transformers. BERT. PyTorch /TensorFlow
19 Named Entity Recognition TensorFlow Lab
20 Large Language Models, Prompt Programming and Few-Shot Tasks PyTorch
VI Other AI Techniques
21 Genetic Algorithms Notebook
22 Deep Reinforcement Learning PyTorch /TensorFlow Lab
23 Multi-Agent Systems
VII AI Ethics
24 AI Ethics and Responsible AI Microsoft Learn: Responsible AI Principles
IX Extras
25 Multi-Modal Networks, CLIP and VQGAN Notebook

Each lesson get inside

  • Pre-reading material
  • Executable Jupyter Notebooks, wey dem dey usually make for di framework (PyTorch or TensorFlow). Di executable notebook still get plenti theoretical material, so if you wan understand di topic you must run through at least one version of di notebook (na PyTorch or TensorFlow).
  • Labs wey dem get for some topics, wey go give you chance to try apply di material wey you don learn to one kain problem.
  • Some sections get links go MS Learn modules wey cover related topics.

Getting Started

🎯 New to AI? Start Here!

If you never sabi AI before and you want quick, hands-on examples, make you check our Beginner-Friendly Examples! Dem get:

  • 🌟 Hello AI World - Your first AI program (pattern recognition)
  • 🧠 Simple Neural Network - Build neural network from scratch
  • πŸ–ΌοΈ Image Classifier - Classify images wit detailed comments
  • πŸ’¬ Text Sentiment - Analyze positive/negative text

These examples dem dey make to help you understand AI concepts before you go full-ground for di curriculum.

πŸ“š Full Curriculum Setup

Follow these steps:

Fork the Repository: Click the "Fork" button for the top-right corner of this page.

Clone the Repository: git clone https://github.com/microsoft/AI-For-Beginners.git

No forget to star (🌟) this repo to make am easy to find later.

Meet other Learners

Join our official AI Discord server make you meet and network with other learners wey dey do this course and get support.

If you get product feedback or questions while you dey build, make you visit our Azure AI Foundry Developer Forum

Quizzes

A note about quizzes: All quizzes dey inside Quiz-app folder for etc\quiz-app, or Online Here Dem dey link inside the lessons, and di quiz app fit run locally or deploy for Azure; follow di instruction wey dey quiz-app folder. Dem dey slowly dey localize.

Help Wanted

You get suggestions or find spelling or code error? Make you raise issue or create pull request.

Special Thanks

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Getting Help

If you jam stuck or you get any question about how to build AI apps. Make you join other learners and experience developers for discussions about MCP. Na supportive community where questions dem dey welcome and knowledge dem dey share freely.

Microsoft Foundry Discord

If you get product feedback or errors while you dey build, make you visit:

Microsoft Foundry Developer Forum


Disclaimer:
Dis document na AI translation service Co-op Translator wey translate am. Even though we dey try make am correct, abeg sabi say automated translation fit get some wahala or mistake. Di original document wey dem write for im own language na di main correct version. If na serious info, make you use professional human translation. We no go take blame if person no understand or misunderstand correct because of dis translation.