The Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (PrepCast) provides a comprehensive, audio-first journey through the foundations, applications, and future directions of AI. Listeners will explore how machines learn, reason, and act, with episodes covering technical concepts, industry use cases, ethical issues, and global impacts. Designed for students, professionals, and career changers alike, this course delivers clear, structured insights that make AI accessible and relevant across domains. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com
For AI to reason, it needs to store and organize information. This episode explores knowledge representation, the frameworks that allow machines to capture facts, relationships, and rules. From seman…
Before machine learning took center stage, AI was already grappling with how to solve problems systematically. This episode dives into search and problem solving, two of the earliest and still fundam…
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 different types that drive training and performance. Stru…
When people talk about machines “thinking,” they’re not talking about human intuition or creativity. They’re talking about algorithms — structured sets of instructions — and representations, the ways…
AI, machine learning, and deep learning are terms often used interchangeably, but they are not the same — and confusing them makes it harder to understand the field. This episode clears the fog by br…
Artificial Intelligence didn’t appear overnight; it has a story stretching back more than seven decades. In this episode, we step into that story, beginning with Alan Turing’s famous question — can m…
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 — just clear explanations you can absorb anywhere. In t…
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 core: what does it actually mean when we say a syste…