Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a cliché that is not well understood. Through this course, students will understand that the scope of AI is a technological as well as a philosophical one. They will learn to distinguish between AI, machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL). The end of this course highlights the industrial applications and ethical challenges of AI, inviting students to explore the relationship between humans and machines.
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Chinese,English
Learning Outcomes
Rundown:
- What actually is AI? : Explain and compare multiple definitions of AI and explore cases of AI in recent history
- ML and DL as subsets of AI: Through case studies and an avoidance of jargon, explore the mechanisms of cognitive computing and neural networks
- Power of AI: Discuss industrial applications of AI from medicine to media and identify the limits of AI
- “Ai” for “Love”? : Guided discussions of the ethical challenges of AI with students forming teams to visualize AI dystopia or utopia