Minds and Machines

Catalog description

Introduces the broad area of artificial intelligence and its intersections with various domains including cognitive science, symbolic logic and reasoning, philosophy of mind, science fiction literature and data science. Students develop and prototype AI algorithms ranging from computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning/control theory and signal/data processing, as well as learning broader sociocultural issues surrounding AI including its history, theories of machine and human intelligence and ethics. Primarily uses Python as its main programming language for development.