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An introduction to artificial intelligence

A six-hour Level 1 OpenLearn introduction linking the history and mechanisms of AI with ethical and social questions.

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You will leave with: Historical development, selected AI techniques, present uses, limits and implications.
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An introduction to artificial intelligenceHistorical development, selected AI techniques, present uses, limits and implications.

Its adult-learning format provides a measured alternative to vendor-led introductions.
Adult beginners, educators and independent learners.
Use as a short guided course or assign individual sections before platform discussions on history and ethics.

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Historical development, selected AI techniques, present uses, limits and implications.

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Why selected

Its adult-learning format provides a measured alternative to vendor-led introductions.

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Adult beginners, educators and independent learners.

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No specialist prerequisite is stated.

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Use as a short guided course or assign individual sections before platform discussions on history and ethics.

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English.

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Defined six-hour scope
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UK examples and institutional framing may not generalize everywhere
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