3 ECTS credits
84 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1024052BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
Students must have followed ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ and 'Working and Reporting Scientifically', before they can enroll for ‘Roots of the AI’.
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Department
Computer Science
Educational team
Ann Nowe (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
24 contact hours Lecture
Course Content

This course teaches the historical roots and development of AI through a number of
historically significant developments and people in AI. This is done on the basis of a number
of papers that the students study under supervision. AI is a field that historically appeals to
the imagination and therefore has strong cycles of hype and distrust, and also cycles in
which one approach (e.g. neural networks) prevails and then another (e.g. statistical
techniques). To put contemporary developments into perspective, it is important that
students know the history of the field.

Additional info

NA

Learning Outcomes

General competences

  • To have knowledge and understanding of the Context of AI.
  • To be able to critically assess an argument from the exact sciences.
  • To be able to search and process academic literature critically.
  • To have familiarity with the ethical, normative and social implications of science and technology, in particular AI.
  • To be able to communicate verbally and in writing at an academic level.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Examen with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Exam + presentation

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Artificial Intelligence: Default track (only offered in Dutch)