Decision Making in Machines / Computers

Topics

• Decision making

  • Automated versus autonomous systems
  • Deterministic versus probabilistic contexts
  • Subjective human and objective machine decisions
  • Object classification by humans and machines

• Machine learning

  • Meaning of machine learning and the role of data
  • Steps in machine learning
  • Programming and algorithms for subjective decisions such as fruit sorting

Learning objectives

1. Explain how a machine can be taught to classify objects such as fruit.