Artificial Intelligence

Rajendra Akerkar is a professor and coordinator of Big Data and Emerging Technologies research at Western Norway Research Institute. His research focuses on developing and applying artificial intelligence techniques to address real-world challenges in emergency management, cybersecurity, and transport and mobility. With over 30 years of academic experience across universities in Asia, Europe, and North America; Rajendra has co-authored more than 150 publications in prestigious international conferences and journals, as well as books and monographs on big data computing, AI, and knowledge-based systems.

• Part 1: Foundations of artificial intelligence.- The genesis of artificial intelligence: Origins and evaluation.- The dawn of AI: Early innovations and discoveries.- Part 2: The learning revolution: Data-driven intelligence.- Soft computing paradigms: Bridging precision and flexibility.- Machine learning: Building intelligence from patterns.- Deep learning: The fabric of representation.- Reinforcement learning: Shaping behaviour through rewards.- Part 3: AI Odyssey: Exploring language and intelligent agents.- Journey through language: Models and prompt engineering.- Autonomous decision maker: AI agents.- Part 4: Expanding the frontiers of AI.- The best of both Worlds: Neuro-symbolic AI.- Mimicking the mind: Evolution of cognitive AI.- Robots with a sense of self: Exploring embodied intelligence.- Part 5: Building advanced and responsible AI.- Blueprint for intelligence: Building robust AI systems.- Never stop learning: The principles of continual learning.- Opening the black box: The role of explainability in AI.- Part 6: Conclusion and future outlook.- Epilogue: AI at the threshold.