Certified - Introduction to AI Audio Course
Episodes
Welcome to the Introduction to AI Audio Course
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 48 — Final Thoughts — The Future Is Ours to Shape
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode closes the series by reflecting on AI’s future and the shared responsibility of shaping it. We begin by revisiting the transformat...
Episode 47 — Building a Career in AI — Roles and Skills
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is not just changing industries; it is also shaping careers. This episode explores the landscape of professional roles, from data scientists and ma...
Episode 46 — Global Competition in AI — U.S., China, and Beyond
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is not just a technical field but a geopolitical one, with nations competing for leadership. This episode begins by examining the United States, wi...
Episode 45 — AI Risks and Existential Questions
10 Sep 2025
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While AI offers opportunity, it also introduces risks ranging from immediate harms to existential threats. This episode begins with short-term issues:...
Episode 44 — Quantum Computing and AI
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computing represents a radical shift in computation that could accelerate AI research. This episode introduces the basics of qubits, superposi...
Episode 43 — AI for Sustainability and Climate
10 Sep 2025
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AI is being applied to one of humanity’s most pressing challenges: climate change. This episode explores how AI analyzes satellite imagery, sensor d...
Episode 42 — AI and Creativity — Music, Art, and Writing
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creativity was once thought uniquely human, but AI is increasingly active in music, art, and writing. This episode begins with early experiments in ru...
Episode 41 — Hybrid Intelligence — Humans and Machines Together
10 Sep 2025
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Hybrid intelligence recognizes that humans and machines each bring unique strengths to problem-solving. This episode explores the concept in detail, b...
Episode 40 — AI Research Frontiers — AGI and Beyond
10 Sep 2025
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Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, represents one of the most ambitious goals in AI research: the creation of systems that can perform a wide va...
Episode 39 — Philosophical Perspectives on AI and Consciousness
10 Sep 2025
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Beyond technical and practical questions, AI raises profound philosophical debates. This episode begins with Alan Turing’s foundational question —...
Episode 38 — AI and National Security
10 Sep 2025
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AI is transforming national security strategies worldwide. This episode begins with intelligence analysis, where AI processes signals, satellite image...
Episode 37 — AI and Law — Regulation, Liability, and Rights
10 Sep 2025
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As AI spreads across every sector, law is racing to keep pace. This episode begins with an overview of national and regional approaches, including the...
Episode 36 — AI and Employment — Jobs Lost, Jobs Created
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is reshaping the workplace as profoundly as earlier industrial revolutions. This episode begins by exploring the jobs most vulnerable to automation...
Episode 35 — Transparency and Explainability
10 Sep 2025
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AI systems are powerful, but when their outputs cannot be understood, they risk losing trust. This episode explores transparency and explainability as...
Episode 34 — AI and Privacy Concerns
10 Sep 2025
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AI systems thrive on data, but the more data they use, the greater the risk to privacy. This episode begins with an overview of the types of data AI c...
Episode 33 — Bias and Fairness in AI
10 Sep 2025
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No issue highlights AI’s societal impact more sharply than bias and fairness. This episode begins by defining bias in AI systems and tracing its sou...
Episode 32 — AI in Everyday Life — Virtual Assistants, Smart Homes
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is no longer confined to labs or corporations; it lives in homes, cars, and devices people use every day. This episode introduces virtual assistant...
Episode 31 — AI in Entertainment and Media
10 Sep 2025
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Entertainment and media have embraced AI in ways that are visible to millions of people every day. This episode explores recommendation engines that p...
Episode 30 — AI in Government and Defense
10 Sep 2025
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Government and defense agencies are among the most active adopters of AI, using it to improve efficiency, security, and decision-making. This episode ...
Episode 29 — AI in Education
10 Sep 2025
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Education is a sector where AI promises to personalize learning at scale. This episode looks at intelligent tutoring systems, adaptive learning platfo...
Episode 28 — AI in Manufacturing and Logistics
10 Sep 2025
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AI has become central to how goods are made, moved, and delivered. This episode begins with predictive maintenance, where algorithms detect failures b...
Episode 27 — AI in Retail and Marketing
10 Sep 2025
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In retail and marketing, AI’s role is visible every time you see a product recommendation or dynamic pricing change. This episode examines how custo...
Episode 26 — AI in Finance
10 Sep 2025
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Finance has always been data-driven, making it a natural fit for AI. In this episode, we cover early uses like algorithmic trading and credit scoring ...
Episode 25 — AI in Healthcare
10 Sep 2025
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Few fields show AI’s potential more vividly than healthcare. This episode begins with diagnostic support systems, from early expert tools like MYCIN...
Episode 24 — AI in Edge and IoT Devices
10 Sep 2025
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AI is not confined to the cloud — it increasingly lives in the devices around us. This episode introduces edge AI, where models run locally on Inter...
Episode 23 — Cloud AI Services — Off-the-Shelf Tools
10 Sep 2025
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Not every organization can build AI systems from scratch, and cloud AI services fill this gap by offering ready-made tools. This episode explains how ...
Episode 22 — Human–AI Interaction — Interfaces and Usability
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For AI to succeed, people must be able to use it effectively. This episode examines the design of interfaces that allow humans to interact with AI in ...
Episode 21 — Common Pitfalls and Bias in AI Systems
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI systems are only as good as the data and assumptions that shape them, and many fail because of recurring pitfalls. This episode outlines the most c...
Episode 20 — Evaluating AI Performance
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Knowing that an AI model works is not enough — we need to know how well it works, and under what conditions. This episode explores the frameworks an...
Episode 19 — Training, Validation, and Testing Models
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once data is prepared, models must be built and evaluated with rigor. This episode covers the three pillars of evaluation: training, validation, and t...
Episode 18 — Data Collection and Preparation for AI
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Data is not just fuel for AI; it must be carefully gathered, cleaned, and prepared to produce reliable results. This episode breaks down the full life...
Episode 17 — Robotics — AI in the Physical World
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While much of AI lives in code and data, robotics brings intelligence into the physical world. This episode examines how robots integrate sensing, rea...
Episode 16 — Speech Recognition and Generation
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Speech is one of the most natural ways humans communicate, and AI systems are increasingly able to listen and respond. This episode covers speech reco...
Episode 15 — Computer Vision — Teaching Machines to See
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ability to process visual information has been a defining achievement for AI. In this episode, we explore how computer vision allows machines to i...
Episode 14 — Natural Language Processing — How Machines Understand Text
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Language is one of the most human forms of intelligence, and this episode explores how AI systems learn to read, interpret, and generate text. We begi...
Episode 13 — Deep Learning — Modern Architectures
10 Sep 2025
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Deep learning represents the cutting edge of neural networks, pushing performance far beyond earlier methods. In this episode, we define deep learning...
Episode 12 — Neural Networks — From Neurons to Layers
10 Sep 2025
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Artificial neural networks are inspired by the structure of the human brain but simplified into mathematical models that drive today’s most powerful...
Episode 11 — Machine Learning Foundations — Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement
10 Sep 2025
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Machine learning is the beating heart of modern AI, and this episode introduces its three foundational approaches: supervised, unsupervised, and reinf...
Episode 10 — Probability and Decision Making Under Uncertainty
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Real-world decisions are rarely black and white, and AI systems must navigate uncertainty just as humans do. This episode explores how probability the...
Episode 9 — Logic and Reasoning Systems
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reasoning has always been at the heart of intelligence, and in this episode we focus on how AI systems use logic to derive conclusions. Starting with ...
Episode 8 — Knowledge Representation — How Machines Store Facts
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For AI to reason, it needs to store and organize information. This episode explores knowledge representation, the frameworks that allow machines to ca...
Episode 7 — Search and Problem Solving in AI
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before machine learning took center stage, AI was already grappling with how to solve problems systematically. This episode dives into search and prob...
Episode 6 — Data — The Fuel of AI
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how advanced the algorithm, it can’t run without data. This episode focuses on why data is considered the fuel of AI, exploring the differ...
Episode 5 — How Machines “Think” — Algorithms and Representations
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When people talk about machines “thinking,” they’re not talking about human intuition or creativity. They’re talking about algorithms — stru...
Episode 4 — AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning — Key Distinctions
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI, machine learning, and deep learning are terms often used interchangeably, but they are not the same — and confusing them makes it harder to unde...
Episode 3 — A Brief History of AI — From Turing to Transformers
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence didn’t appear overnight; it has a story stretching back more than seven decades. In this episode, we step into that story, b...
Episode 2 — Course Roadmap — How to Learn AI in Audio Form
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This PrepCast is designed to teach Artificial Intelligence in a way that fits into real life: no slides, no diagrams, no heavy math on the page — ju...
Episode 1 — Orientation — What is Artificial Intelligence?
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence is a term everyone has heard, but few understand in depth. In this opening episode, we cut through the hype and get to the cor...