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๐ŸŒฟ Level 2

AI Sprouts

Build Your AI Foundations

Ready to grow? Dive into the building blocks of AI - data, algorithms, and neural networks. Hands-on exercises help you build intuition before writing code.

16
Lessons
~4h
Duration
2/5
Level

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Learn

  • โœ“Distinguish supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
  • โœ“Understand what training data is and why it matters
  • โœ“Think critically about AI bias and fairness

Prerequisites: AI Seeds (recommended)

๐Ÿ‘ค Who Is This For?

Learners who completed AI Seeds or have basic AI awareness

๐Ÿท๏ธ Topics Covered

Types of AIUnderstanding dataHow AI decidesAI ethics basics
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Put theory into practice with hands-on AI experiments you can run right in your browser.

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๐Ÿ“š Lessons

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How Data Powers AI

Discover what datasets are, why data quality matters, and how the right data teaches AI to be smart.

โฑ๏ธ 12mโ†’
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Algorithms Explained

Learn what algorithms are, how they work with everyday examples, and why choosing the right one matters for AI.

โฑ๏ธ 15mโ†’
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โ“ Frequently Asked Questions

AI Sprouts is designed for learners who have basic AI awareness โ€” ideally after completing AI Seeds. If you already know what AI is at a high level, you're ready to explore the building blocks like data types, algorithms, and ethics.

AI Sprouts typically takes 3โ€“4 hours to complete. The lessons build on each other, so we recommend going through them in order, but you can take breaks anytime.

No programming is required. AI Sprouts uses interactive visuals and hands-on exercises to build your intuition about how AI works, without writing code.

Yes! Complete all lessons and you'll earn a personalised certificate of completion that you can share on LinkedIn or with employers.

Yes, completely free. AI Educademy believes quality AI education should be accessible to everyone, everywhere.

You'll learn to distinguish between supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. You'll understand training data, explore how AI makes decisions, and think critically about AI bias and fairness.

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Introduction to Neural Networks

Explore how neural networks mimic the brain, process information through layers, and learn from their mistakes.

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Training AI Models

Understand the training loop, loss functions, overfitting, and how to know when your AI model is ready.

โฑ๏ธ 15mโ†’
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AI Ethics and Bias

Explore how bias enters AI systems, the ethical challenges AI creates, and how we can build fairer technology.

โฑ๏ธ 15mโ†’
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Backpropagation

Understand how neural networks learn by propagating errors backwards through layers, using the chain rule to update every weight.

โฑ๏ธ 16mโ†’
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Loss Functions and Optimisers

Discover how loss functions measure a model's errors and how optimisers use gradients to systematically reduce them.

โฑ๏ธ 15mโ†’
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Tokenisation

Learn how language models break text into tokens using BPE and other algorithms, and why tokenisation shapes everything from cost to capability.

โฑ๏ธ 14mโ†’
9
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Embeddings and Vector Databases

Explore how AI represents words and sentences as vectors in high-dimensional space, enabling semantic search, recommendations, and RAG.

โฑ๏ธ 16mโ†’
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Evaluation Metrics

Learn why accuracy alone is misleading, and master the metrics - precision, recall, F1, ROC-AUC, BLEU, and perplexity - that truly measure AI performance.

โฑ๏ธ 15mโ†’
11
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Understanding Large Language Models

How GPT, Claude and other LLMs work under the hood

โฑ๏ธ 15mโ†’
12
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Overfitting and Underfitting: Why ML Models Fail

Understand the two most common machine learning failure modes โ€” overfitting and underfitting โ€” with clear examples and how to fix them.

โฑ๏ธ 25mโ†’
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Feature Engineering: Teaching Machines What Matters

Learn how feature engineering transforms raw data into powerful machine learning inputs โ€” the skill that separates good models from great ones.

โฑ๏ธ 30mโ†’
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Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning: Key Differences Explained

A clear comparison of supervised and unsupervised machine learning โ€” when to use each approach, with real-world examples and algorithms.

โฑ๏ธ 25mโ†’
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Decision Trees: The Algorithm You Can Draw on Paper

Learn how decision trees work, why they're one of the most intuitive ML algorithms, and when to use them.

โฑ๏ธ 25mโ†’
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Clustering: How AI Finds Patterns Without Labels

Understand clustering โ€” a key unsupervised learning technique โ€” through K-Means, hierarchical clustering, and real-world applications.

โฑ๏ธ 25mโ†’