Sorting and Searching - How AI Ranks and Finds Results

Public lesson preview

Discover why sorting and searching algorithms are fundamental to how AI ranks recommendations and finds answers.

Learning objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will understand:

• ✓Finding Things Fast
• ✓Why Sorting Matters
• ✓Bubble Sort - Simple but Slow
• ✓Merge Sort - Divide and Conquer
• ✓Binary Search - The Phone Book Trick

Lesson outline

1. Finding Things Fast
2. Why Sorting Matters
3. Bubble Sort - Simple but Slow
4. Merge Sort - Divide and Conquer
5. Bubble Sort vs Merge Sort at Scale
6. Binary Search - The Phone Book Trick
7. How AI Uses Sorting and Searching
8. Ranking Search Results
9. Recommendation Systems
10. K-Nearest Neighbours
11. Training Data Preparation
12. When to Sort vs When to Use a Hash Map
13. Key Takeaways