Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field that has a long history but is still constantly and actively growing and changing. It is, therefore, very important to stay abreast with the latest developments in the field. Whether you are an AI practitioner, aspiring professional or simply an AI enthusiast, here are the top 5 online courses that you can take to learn from the top experts.

• Foundations of Artificial Intelligence — by NASSCOM FutureSkills and SkillUp Online: Learn the history of AI and know how real-world problems are being solved by AI. This course will lay a strong foundation for a career that includes working with Artificial Intelligence systems. It will help you gain skills in Python- the most preferred language for developing AI applications. Culminate your learning with a project on data visualization using Python. Upon successful completion the learner will get a NASSCOM SSC - SkillUp Online co-branded completion certificate. Course starts at Rs. 15000 (excluding GST)
• AI Foundations for everyone — by IBM: This is a specialisation comprising three courses. It is designed for those with little or no background in AI, and no programming skills are required either. It will familiarize you with IBM Watson AI services that enable any business to quickly and easily employ pre-built AI smarts to their products and solutions. By the end of this specialization, learners will have had hands-on interactions with several AI environments and applications, and have built and deployed an AI enabled chatbot on a website – without any coding. Each of the courses in this specialisation can also be audited for free, individually. This specialisation will take approx. 12 weeks to complete on Coursera.
• Deep Learning Specialization — by Deeplearning.ai: If you want to break into AI, this Specialization comprising five courses will help you do so. You will learn the foundations of Deep Learning, understand how to build neural networks, and learn how to lead successful machine learning projects. You will learn about Convolutional networks, RNNs, LSTM, Adam, Dropout, BatchNorm, Xavier/He initialization, and more. You will work on case studies from healthcare, autonomous driving, sign language reading, music generation, and natural language processing. You will master not only the theory, but also see how it is applied in industry. You will practice all these ideas in Python and in TensorFlow, which will be taught as a part of the course. It will take approx. 16 weeks to complete this course on Coursera.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — by Columbia University: This course will provide a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems and an understanding of how AI is applied to problems. You will learn about the history of AI, intelligent agents, state-space problem representations, uninformed and heuristic search, game playing, logical agents, and constraint satisfaction problems. Hands on experience will be gained by building a basic search agent. Students are required to have prior basic knowledge of Python programming and an understanding of probability. This course will take approx. 12 weeks to complete on edX, and will cost Rs. 18000 to complete with a certificate, though it can be audited for free.
• CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python — by Harvard University: This course will enable you to take the first step toward solving important real-world problems and future-proofing your career. Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, reinforcement learning, and other topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning as they incorporate them into their own Python programs. This course will take approx. 7 weeks to complete on edX, and will cost approx. Rs. 15000 to complete with a certificate, though it can be audited for free.

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