AI 101 - Course & Competition - Grades 7-12 - Sun@11:30am EST-Recording Workshop 6

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The session began with a homework review focusing on average pooling in CNNs and calculating dot products between images and filters. Average pooling involves averaging pixel values within a specified window, resulting in smaller feature maps. Dot product exercises emphasized filter sliding and element-wise multiplication for feature extraction.<br /><br />The instructor introduced standard deviation as a key statistical concept measuring data variation around the mean, illustrating how to compute it with an example dataset. This concept was then applied to decision trees, demonstrating how splitting on features like bedrooms or backyard presence can reduce the dataset's standard deviation and thus improve prediction accuracy.<br /><br />The main topic was generative art, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). GANs consist of two neural networks—a generator that creates images from random noise using deconvolutional layers, and a discriminator that uses CNNs to distinguish between real and fake images. They train adversarially, each improving their performance via supervised loss functions during unsupervised training. The generator aims to fool the discriminator, while the discriminator strives to correctly classify images, leading to better-generated art over time.<br /><br />Additional models like OpenAI's DALL·E, which generates images from textual descriptions, were discussed as next-generation generative tools. The session ended with homework tasks on calculating standard deviations, understanding GAN-based papers like Pix2Pix, and experimenting with generative art models.

Keywords

average pooling

dot product

standard deviation

decision trees

generative art

Generative Adversarial Networks

generator network

discriminator network

DALL·E