Essentials of Discriminative AI and Convolutional Neural Networks

In this Open Lab, Namig Abbasov, Digital Humanities Analyst, will first define the boundaries of discriminative AI, comparing it to generative AI. Then we will explore several techniques in discriminative AI and why they are discriminative. In the third part, we will cover discriminative techniques in deep learning and dive into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), first demonstrating how they work and then outlining major architectures such as AlexNet, ResNet and EfficientNet as much as our time allows.