Applied AI
Rize’s Applied AI program is a highly technical program designed to be offered as a combined major or concentration for Computer Science and Data Science majors. This 5-course sequence emphasizes the applied aspects of AI providing students with hands-on experience to build custom AI systems, design neural architectures, fine-tune models, engineer effective prompts, design experiments, and create informative visualizations to communicate the value of their work. Give your students the skills they need to stay up to date in an incredibly fast-moving space, positioning them as builders for an increasingly AI-driven future.
Applied AI
Courses
Introduction to Generative AI
Generative AI is AI that can produce new content - answers, code, music, art, video, and more. Those who harness it are more productive, more in-demand, and more highly paid. Those who don’t will be left behind. This lightly technical intro will teach you the foundational skills to level up your understanding of transformers, LLMs, and more. By the end of this course, you will engineer better prompts and apply chain-of-thought techniques to generate AI solutions.
Predictive Modeling in AI
This course brings the predictive power of AI to your toolbox. You'll discover how to analyze, interpret, and forecast complex data using AI tools. Learn through hands-on activities and practice techniques like regression analysis and neural networks. You'll also explore how to fill in missing data and estimate your confidence in your predictions. By the end of this course, you'll have in-demand skills for your career and be ready to take on more advanced studies.
Career Navigation and Exploration in Applied AI
AI jobs are exploding, but the pathways to discover and land them aren’t always clear. In this course, you’ll explore the wide - and growing - variety of career pathways your AI skills unlock. You’ll understand salaries, growth trends, target jobs, and the skills needed to land them. You’ll deepen an understanding of resume and interview skills, achievable goals, and careers that meet your needs for meaning, excitement, and a lucrative financial future.
Prescriptive AI
Prescriptive AI teaches you the highest-value technical AI skills available. You’ll use the advanced techniques of optimization, evolutionary computation, surrogate modeling, and agent building, helping you use AI for its true superpower: faster, better business decisions. Through real-world challenges and hands-on projects in decision-making, robotics, and more, you’ll be able to frame problems and train models that make you a desirable hire in any industry.
Student Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
- Create generative AI solutions to real-world problems across various industries.
- Evaluate the unique challenges posed by generative AI across different fields.
- Identify business problems that can be addressed with predictive modeling by applying frameworks and a holistic understanding of the conditions for success.
- Build robust predictive models that address business problems across a broad range of domains and data types.
- Identify business problems that can be addressed with prescriptive modeling by applying frameworks and a holistic understanding of the conditions for success.
- Build prescriptive analytics systems, decision-support systems, or intelligent agents based on prescriptive AI that solve business problems.
- Build complex AI applications capable of performing a variety of functions.
- Identify career opportunities through frameworks that evaluate fulfillment and financial health.
- Build a plan for securing opportunities in AI, using empathy and professionalism to maximize chances of success.
Certifications
Disclosure
This program includes courses delivered online through an institution of the Lower Cost Models Consortium (LCMC), however all academic credit applies toward the degree requirements at your degree-granting institution.
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