Artificial and Natural Intelligence

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An introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its relation to Natural Intelligence, with consideration of their interactive cooperation. Interactive cooperation is especially important for teams that include both human and synthetic agents. Under guidance, each student shall select an existing AI method or methods for the purpose of designing and scoping a tractable hands-on individual project, and pursue the goal of building a working, minimum viable AI product. Lectures and readings will introduce such methods. The field of AI advances quickly; students will be trained in how to stay abreast of developments in the field. It is in the nature of the field that different students will enter with different strengths and weaknesses. Guidance on selecting an individual project will accordingly be personalized. Assignments also emphasize reflection upon the relation of the AI to its counterparts (or analogues or opposites) in Human, or more generally Natural, cognition. Emphasis is placed on the cooperation and interaction between AI and human agents in co-intelligent teams. Offered as COGS 315 and COGS 415 .