**Introduction to AI:** 1. **Foundations of AI:** - Overview of artificial intelligence - History and evolution of AI - AI applications in various domains 2. **Problem Solving and Search:** - Problem-solving methodologies - Search algorithms (e.g., depth-first, breadth-first, A*) - Heuristic search and informed search 3. **Knowledge Representation:** - Predicate logic and propositional logic - Semantic networks and frames - Ontologies and knowledge graphs 4. **Machine Learning Basics:** - Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning - Training data, features, and labels - Model evaluation and performance metrics **Machine Learning and Deep Learning:** 5. **Supervised Learning:** - Linear regression - Classification algorithms (e.g., logistic regression, decision trees) - Support vector machines - Neural networks and deep learning 6. **Unsupervised Learning:** - Clustering algorithms (e.g., K-means, hierarchical clustering) - Dimensionality reduction (e.g., PCA) - Association rule mining 7. **Reinforcement Learning:** - Markov decision processes (MDPs) - Q-learning and policy gradients - Deep reinforcement learning - Applications in robotics and gaming **Natural Language Processing (NLP):** 8. **NLP Fundamentals:** - Text preprocessing (tokenization, stemming, lemmatization) - Named entity recognition (NER) - Part-of-speech tagging 9. **Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis:** - Document classification - Sentiment analysis techniques - Text summarization 10. **Machine Translation and Language Generation:** - Machine translation models (e.g., Seq2Seq) - Language generation with recurrent and transformer models - Chatbots and conversational AI **Computer Vision:** 11. **Image Processing:** - Image enhancement and filtering - Feature extraction (e.g., edge detection) - Object detection and image segmentation 12. **Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs):** - CNN architecture and components - Transfer learning with pre-trained CNNs - Image recognition and classification 13. **Object Recognition and Tracking:** - Object detection frameworks (e.g., YOLO, Faster R-CNN) - Object tracking algorithms - Image-based localization and mapping **AI Ethics and Applications:** 14. **Ethical AI and Bias:** - Bias in AI algorithms - Fairness, transparency, and accountability - Ethical AI design and guidelines 15. **AI in Healthcare and Medicine:** - Medical image analysis - Disease diagnosis and prediction - Drug discovery and personalized medicine 16. **AI in Autonomous Systems:** - Autonomous vehicles - Drone technology and applications - Robotics and automation **Advanced AI Topics:** 17. **Deep Learning Architectures:** - Generative adversarial networks (GANs) - Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) - Transformers and attention mechanisms 18. **AI for Natural Language Understanding:** - Question answering systems - Coreference resolution - Contextual embeddings (e.g., BERT) 19. **AI Research and Projects:** - Research methodologies in AI - AI project development and implementation - Capstone projects and research papers