Artificial Intelligence: Automated Thinking to Augment Human Intellect

Catalog description

This course introduces students to key artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and their broad real-world applications. It first introduces students to the interdisciplinary intellectual underpinnings of artificial intelligence and the high-level computational architectures of intelligence. This foundational knowledge prepares the stage for introducing students to representative examples of artificial intelligence in action (from the lenses of "what, why, and social and ethical implications"), including playing games, learning from data, perception, language processing and question answering, making decisions, planning actions, interacting in multi-agent teams, and creative composition of text, music, and art/imagery. The course will also introduce ethical implications of AI and its impacts on society. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to articulate the big picture of AI, including basic understanding of AI's key capabilities such as natural language understanding, visual perception, prediction, learning, as well as ethics issues related to AI.