This specialization will explain and describe the overall focus areas for business leaders considering AI-based solutions for business challenges. The first course provides a business-oriented summary of technologies and basic concepts in AI. The second will introduce the technologies and concepts in data science. The third introduces the AI Ladder, which is a framework for understanding the work and processes that are necessary for the successful deployment of AI-based solutions.

Applied Learning Project

Each of the courses in this specialization include Checks for Understanding, which are designed to assess each learner’s ability to understand the concepts presented as well as use those concepts in actual practice. Specifically, those concepts are related to introductory knowledge regarding 1) artificial intelligence; 2) data science, and; 3) the AI Ladder.