ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE- FALL 2024 VIDEOS
Lead Coordinator: Wayne Cotter
Artificial Intelligence: A Brave New World? is a Science course that explores various aspects of the history, development, ramifications, and folklore surrounding the field of artificial intelligence.
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A History of Artificial Intelligence
Presenter: Steve Allen
Presentation Date: September 16, 2024
Last fall, we began the first semester of the AI course with a history of artificial intelligence. For our second semester, we are beginning with a history of human intelligence, looking to compare and contrast it with AI.
We’ll begin at the beginning, with the intelligence of bacteria, and follow the story of how natural selection responded to environmental challenges by developing new modes and structures of intelligence which have been preserved in humans. We’ll look at animals, who developed neurons and brains, which allowed for Pavlovian associative learning; vertebrates who developed the cortex of the brain which allowed for trial-and-error learning; mammals who developed the neocortex which allowed for learning by simulation; primates who developed the frontal cortex which allowed for an understanding of other minds; and humans who uniquely developed language which created vast new learning opportunities.
At each stage, we’ll consider parallel developments in artificial intelligence and how developments in AI can offer insights about human intelligence.
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How AI Hires, Fires, and Promotes Employees in Today’s Workplace
Presenter: Wayne Cotter
Presentation Date: September 30, 2024
More than many thought possible just a few short years ago, Artificial Intelligence has infiltrated the hiring, promotion and firing practices in many corporations – both large and small. Big Brother is indeed alive and well in today’s workplace
Can AI detect which employees are likely to stay and which will probably quit? Can your facial expressions or voice patterns really reveal the type of worker you’ll become? How comfortable would you feel at a job interview conducted by a robot?
During our session, a special guest who currently works in the HR department of a large, multinational corporation will offer his observations on whether current concerns about AI at the workplace are, in his view, legitimate or overblown.
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AI and You. Beyond ChatGPT – The Advent of New AI Software Suites
Presenter: Tracey Lee
Presentation Date: October 28, 2024
Artificial Intelligence has arrived this year, on your phone, on your PC or Apple Computers and iPads, and even on your glasses! Since early 2024, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple have all launched their own new Artificial Intelligence Software Suites that you can access or chat with from your own devices or through the internet for little or no cost.
Even if you are not ready to launch into using Artificial Intelligence, come and hear about what it can do for you And if you are concerned about the direction of AI, come and hear how these new systems may use your data and information on your phones and computers now and in the future.
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Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property
Presenter: Jim Brook
Presentation Date: November 11, 2024
Intellectual property — Patent, Copyright and Trademark — gives rights to an inventor, author or distributor of unique works or products. This area of law is nowhere near to settling on a way to successfully deal with inventions or works created with the aid of artificial intelligence. How can creators of such works protect the fruits of their labors? How may others argue that their property has been wrongly appropriated through the use of A.I.?
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AI and Games
Presenter: Steve Allen
Presentation Date: December 2, 2024
Starting in the 1950s when powerful computers were first developed, there has been a strong interest in trying to get computers to play non-physical games, such as checkers, backgammon, chess, and poker. This was both intellectually challenging and a good benchmark for advances in computational theory and technology. Major AI breakthroughs in the past decade have produced programs that can consistently win against world champions in chess, Go, and poker among other games.
This talk looks at the major intellectual advances behind these breakthroughs, the impact they have had upon the game playing communities, and the potential for applications to scientific progress. For example, Demis Hassibis, an AI researcher behind the most advanced chess and Go programs, just shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research that directly grew out of his work on games.