Module 04

AI & Machine Learning Basics

Understand AI Without the Hype

Learn core AI and machine learning concepts through small offline scikit-learn examples, model evaluation, overfitting, and responsible AI practice.

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Learning Objectives

  • Explain AI, machine learning, supervised learning, and key ML vocabulary in plain language
  • Prepare small datasets and run simple scikit-learn workflows for regression or classification
  • Interpret evaluation metrics, confusion matrices, and model limitations honestly
  • Recognize overfitting, underfitting, and basic strategies for improving model quality
  • Identify bias, privacy, and fairness risks in real-world AI systems

Glossary

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Technology that performs tasks associated with human intelligence, such as pattern recognition or prediction.
Machine Learning
A branch of AI where models learn patterns from data instead of only following fixed rules.
Feature
An input value or column used by a model to make a prediction.
Label
The correct answer a supervised learning model is trained to predict.
Overfitting
When a model learns the training data too closely and performs poorly on new data.