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Rise of the Machines: The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence
$79.95
$79.95
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Course Overview
Humanity is on the cusp of unthinkable changes. Technology has the potential to rapidly progress in the next few decades in ways that we cannot even imagine. Artificial intelligence (AI) has already emerged in the form of chat bots whose conversations are indistinguishable from a human response.
Bots have been around for years, slowly creeping into websites in the help menus and into voice prompts posing as human messengers to answer our questions and guide us to pre-canned answers. Most of us have experienced the frustration of navigating these artificial messengers hurrying through the menu machine to finally get to a real human. You could tell right away that the voice on the other side of the conversation was synthetic, but now it is getting increasingly difficult to differentiate what is human and what is machine. Bots are computer programs that simulate human conversation through voice commands or text chats. A bot is an autonomous program that can interact with systems or people. Recent developments in machine learning algorithms, such as deep learning and neural networks, perform AI tasks such as natural language generation, image recognition, speech recognition, and text to speech synthesis. We are approaching the technological singularity where technological advancements accelerate so rapidly that they could surpass human comprehension and control. As with other unknown ventures this is a scary prospect. Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course the student will learn:
• how to trace the history and evolution of AI
• how to explain key concepts like the Turing Test and Moore’s Law
• how to describe how AI systems (chatbots, neural networks, expert systems) work
• how to identify real-world applications of AI
• how to discuss ethical and societal impacts of AI
• how to explain the technological singularity
• how to participate in informed discussions about AI’s future
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