COMP9414 Artificial Intelligence (UNSW Sydney): rated 2.7/5 overall across 19 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP9414 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Computer Science and Engineering. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 人工智能
Type: Postgraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Postgraduate Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
COMP9414 is a foundational course on Artificial Intelligence covering fundamental topics such as autonomous agents, problem solving, optimisation, logic, knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, vision, language processing, machine learning, neural networks and reinforcement learning. The course is taught with an orientation towards machine learning and with a view to practical applications of Artificial Intelligence using Python.
COMP9414 has 19 scored reviews: overall 2.7/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 19 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 2.7/5).
On Reddit: "Hardest: COMP9414 (hard but easy to fail), COMP9417 (hard but easy to pass). Favorites: COMP6080, COMP9321, COMP6080."
On Reddit: "People said it was an easy course because it *was* an easy course. I did it last term and it's easily one of my best marks to date. (Even you seem to agree that the content is *easy enough.*) It sounds like they changed the course slightly this term, since we were taught prolog …"
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Q: Is COMP9414 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 19 reviews: overall 2.7/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP9414, and when is it offered?
A: COMP9414 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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