Hi all,

I would like to spend the first part of class peer reviewing your essays. We will break up into small groups and each group member will drop a link to their paper in the chat.

Using the rubric below please write comments for each other. While it’s always nice to be supportive this process is more about constructive criticism.

FINAL DRAFTS ARE DUE NEXT WEEK.

Writing Rubric:

  • Thesis Statement, Introduction, Conclusion
  • Examples, Evidence and Content 
  • Organization and Structure
  • Writing Mechanics and Style

AI, what is it, how will it change us and what is the role of governance?

Today we’ll get into the what and next week we’ll look at ethical considerations, AI’s role in a democracy, and theories of governance.

A few resources to get us started:

HOW I FAKED MY LIFE WITH AI (SHORT FILM)

Feedback. How have you used AI?

What is AI: Everyone thinks they know but no one can agree. And that’s a problem.

(Ch. 1 )

What does it mean to understand? What does it mean to be conscious? What are some productive ways to discuss AI?

Let’s circle back to the question “What is AI”

Attention Is All You Need (abstract, introduction, sections 1-5 and conclusion)

Attention Is All You Need“[1] is a 2017 landmark[2][3] research paper in machine learning authored by eight scientists working at Google. The paper introduced a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer, based on the attention mechanism proposed in 2014 by Bahdanau et al. It is considered a foundational[4] paper in modern artificial intelligence, as the transformer approach has become the main architecture of large language models like those based on GPT.[5][6] At the time, the focus of the research was on improving Seq2seq techniques for machine translation, but the authors go further in the paper, foreseeing the technique’s potential for other tasks like question answering and what is now known as multimodal Generative AI.[1] (wikipedia)