![]() ![]() Required: View Star Trek Next Generation: Is Data Sentient? (7 mins) View short video on Strong vs. Required What AI is - and isn't (24 min Ted Talk by Sebastian Thrun) On killer robots and human control Project Ploughshares – Short paper Optional Public Health, Ethics, and Autonomous Vehicles - NCBI - NIH by J Fleetwood - 2017ħ Due April 9: Can Machines be Conscious? Read The Future of Not Working from the New York Times about a Universal Basic Income View Cathy O’Neill author of Weapons of Math Destruction (58 mins) about bias in big data algorithms. Required: View Kevin Kelly on How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution (15 mins) View Martin Ford on The Rise of the Robots: The Threat of a Jobless Future (21 mins) Look over Infographic on Universal Basic Income Optional: View Nicholas Carr on The Glass Cage: Automation and Us (55 mins) about the dangers of becoming too reliant on automation. View Shyam Sankar: The rise of human-computer cooperation (12 mins) Optional: Read the Nature essay: Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AIĥ Due March 26: The Human Impact of Artificial Intelligence Today we might title it “Person- Computer Symbiosis. Bear in mind this was written in 1960 at M.I.T. View short video on history of AI (5 mins) View short video on machine learning (9 mins) and footnote (2 mins) Optional: View Google's AI Chief Geoffrey Hinton How Neural Networks Really Work (28 mins) Read Blog post on Software 2.0 from Andrej Karpathy, Director of AI at Tesla View NOVA special on IBM Watson (52 mins)Ĥ Due March 19: Machines Augmenting Human Intelligence Think about whether and to what extent each philosopher leaves room for machines that think. Required: Read the following excerpts on dualism and materialism from 17th C philosophers Descartes, Hobbes, Locke. Optional: Read The Robots Are Winning! Daniel Mendelsohn New York Review of Books JIssueģ Due March 12: History of AI and the Machine Learning Revolution Optional: Read The Machine Stops: Did EM Forster predict the internet age? BBC News story about a stage adaptation. The full text is found here: You may also listen to the story by pressing the speaker icon. This is a 35 page futuristic short story written in It raises questions about a society that willingly cedes power to ‘the machine’ in return for comfort and security. ![]() Required: Read or listen to “The Machine Stops” by acclaimed writer E. PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEĢ Due March 5: Artificial Intelligence in Fiction The required assignment should take no more than an hour. The purpose is to enable you to contribute more to the discussion. They form the basis of the initial discussion in each session. Homework These assignments should be done prior to the classes. 1 PHILOSOPHERS LOOK AT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ![]()
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