Overview
Artificial Intelligence (AI) involves developing systems that are autonomous and intelligent. This unit introduces you to contemporary and emerging AI technologies to address problems such as medical diagnosis, manufacturing optimisation and transport scheduling. You will investigate the application of AI technologies in areas such as computer vision, machine learning and deep learning. Fundamental AI concepts will be considered, including artificial neural networks and model validation techniques. You will develop AI systems using industry tools and learn to develop a business case for an AI system.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: COIT11222 Programming Fundamentals
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2024
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Teaching Team
Students feel overloaded with many new theoretical and practical concepts each week, making it difficult for some students to grasp key AI concepts.
Increase practical materials on important AI topics, such as image analysis, face recognition and deep learning models, while reducing some of the theory on less important topics.
Feedback from Head of Postgraduate ICT courses
The Moodle site can be streamlined to make it more user-friendly and consistent to adhere with CQURenew guidelines.
Streamline the Moodle site to make it more consistent to adhere with CQURenew guidelines.
- Select Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to solve authentic problems including social innovation challenges
- Apply industry tools to solve AI problems
- Critique business cases for AI systems against social and ethical frameworks.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA provides a consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments, and individuals in many countries and is increasingly used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments and individuals in many countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles. ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile.
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA 7 (the SFIA code is included)
- Analytics (INAN)
- Systems design (DESN)
- Data modelling and design (DTAN)
- Programming/Software Development (PROG)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 35% | |||
| 2 - Group Work - 30% | |||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 35% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||
| 5 - Team Work | |||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 35% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Group Work - 30% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Artificial Intelligence with Python
second edition (2020)
Authors: Artificial Intelligence with Python
ISBN: 9781839219535
Binding: Website Link
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Jupyter Notebook
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.anwaarulhaq@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, History and Applications
(A review of Python for AI Applications)
Chapter
Chapter 1, Chapter 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Class introductions, IDE Demo
Module/Topic
Machine Learning Pipeline and Feature Engineering
Chapter
Chapters 3 and 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exploratory Data Analytics -Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Regression Analysis and Predictive Models
Overfitting and Regularization
Chapter
Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Regression-Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Perceptron, Gradient Descent and Backpropagation
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
Perceptron-Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Recognition with Computer Vision-CNN
Chapter
Chapter 19 and 20
Events and Submissions/Topic
CNN-Hands-on Lab Activity
Assessment 1 Due Friday, 05/04/2024, 11:45 pm
Online Quiz Due: Week 5 Friday (5 Apr 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Session Break
Chapter
Session Break
Events and Submissions/Topic
Session Break
Module/Topic
Recognition with Computer Vision-Vision Transformer (ViT)
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
VIT-Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Natural Language Processing
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
NLP-Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Integrating Language and Vision
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
VLM-Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Generative AI - GANS
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
BigGANS-Hands-on Lab Activity
Assessment 2 Due Friday, 10/05/2024 11:45 pm
Group Work Due: Week 9 Friday (10 May 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Robotics1: Agent Search Strategies and Robotics
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
Heuristic Search-Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Robotics2: Reinforcement Learning- Q Learning
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
Q-Learning-Hands-on Lab Activity
Module/Topic
Ethical, Responsible and Explainable AI
Chapter
Lecture Notes Only
Events and Submissions/Topic
Break-out Room Discussion
Assessment 3 Due Friday, 31/05/2024 11:45 pm
Written Assessment Due: Week 12 Friday (31 May 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Review/Exam Week
Chapter
Review/Exam Week
Events and Submissions/Topic
Review/Exam Week
Module/Topic
Exam Week
Chapter
Exam Week
Events and Submissions/Topic
Unit coordinator: Dr. Anwaar Ulhaq
email: a.anwaarulhaq@cqu.edu.au
1 Online Quiz(zes)
Assessment 1 consists of an online quiz based on Lectures 1-5. Students are allowed two attempts within a 1-hour time limit for each attempt. The grading method considers the average score across the attempts. This quiz aims to evaluate students' proficiency in applying AI techniques to real-world problems, specifically focusing on social innovation challenges.
Other
Week 5 Friday (5 Apr 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 5 Friday (5 Apr 2024)
Assessment 1 will consist of 35 questions, primarily scenario-based multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that require critical thinking. The total marks for this assessment are 35. The questions are designed to evaluate your understanding of the topics covered in Lectures 1-5, with a specific focus on practical applications and problem-solving related to social innovation challenges.
Please review the relevant lecture materials to prepare for the assessment. For additional details or clarification, feel free to reach out to your unit coordinator. They will provide further guidance to ensure your readiness for this evaluation.
- Select Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to solve authentic problems including social innovation challenges
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Group Work
Assignment 2 is a group project where students work together to write Python code for specific problem-solving tasks. They are required to choose and justify the use of AI tools & techniques for these tasks. Details, including the project description, data, and sources, are provided on the Moodle site. The unit coordinator assigns groups with a maximum size of three. Individual contributions are assessed, and while group members may receive similar marks based on participation, each student's unique contribution is considered.
This assessment will address the following unit learning outcomes: Apply industry tools to solve AI problems and critique business cases for AI systems against social and ethical frameworks.
Week 9 Friday (10 May 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 11 Friday (24 May 2024)
A detailed rubric and marking criteria will be made available on Moodle as part of the comprehensive assessment description. This document will provide clear guidelines for the evaluation process, offering transparency on how assignments will be assessed and graded. Students are encouraged to refer to this resource for a thorough understanding of the expectations and criteria that will inform the assessment of their work.
- Apply industry tools to solve AI problems
- Critique business cases for AI systems against social and ethical frameworks.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
- Social Innovation
3 Written Assessment
Assignment 3 is an individual task where students develop a written artefact (document) on a topic specified by the unit coordinator. The selected topic will be the most recent and relevant AI application or one specific to the unit's focus. Students must apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the unit to prepare this document. This assessment will address the following unit learning outcomes: select Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to solve authentic problems, including social innovation challenges; apply industry tools to solve AI problems; and critique business cases for AI systems against social and ethical frameworks.
Week 12 Friday (31 May 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (14 June 2024)
Upon grade certification
A detailed rubric and marking criteria will be made available on Moodle as part of the comprehensive assessment description. This document will provide clear guidelines for the evaluation process, offering transparency on how assignments will be assessed and graded. Students are encouraged to refer to this resource for a thorough understanding of the expectations and criteria that will inform the assessment of their work.
- Select Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to solve authentic problems including social innovation challenges
- Apply industry tools to solve AI problems
- Critique business cases for AI systems against social and ethical frameworks.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
- Social Innovation
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
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