6.034 Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2010, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Patrick Henry Winston. This course introduces students to the basic knowledge representation, problem solving, and learning methods of artificial intelligence. Upon completion of 6.034, students should be able to develop intelligent systems by assembling solutions to concrete computational problems; understand the role of knowledge representation, problem solving, and learning in intelligent-system engineering; and appreciate the role of problem solving, vision, and language in understanding human intelligence from a computational perspective.
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Lecture 12 - Learning: Neural Nets, Back Propagation
How do we model neurons? In the neural net problem, we want a set of weights that makes the actual output match the desired output. We use a simple neural net to work out the back propagation algorithm, and show that it is a local computation.