Stuart School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program
MBA 532
Artificial Intelligence
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the evolving area of artificial intelligence (AI), with an emphasis on potential business applications and related managerial insights.
AI is the science behind systems that can program themselves to classify, predict, and offer solutions based on structured and unstructured data. For millennia, humans have pondered the idea of building intelligent machines. Ever since, AI has had highs and lows, demonstrated successes and unfulfilled potential. Today, AI is empowering people and changing our world. Netflix recommends movies, Amazon recommends popular products, self-driving cars learn to navigate safely around other vehicles without human assistance, and programmed robots distinguish trash from dishes that are to be washed.
This course focuses on how AI systems understand, reason, learn and interact. Students in this course will learn from industry’s experience on several AI cases, develop a deeper understanding of machine learning (ML) techniques and the algorithms that power those systems, and propose solutions to real world scenarios leveraging AI methodologies. The course also presents two key opportunities for students: first, to earn a globally-recognized IBM digital badge in AI; second, to develop a high-quality proposal to plan and execute the deployment of an AI application at a student’s future employer.
This course is open to undergraduates and graduate students.
PREREQUISITE(S): None
LECTURE: 3 LAB: 0 CREDITS: 3