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Understanding AI: The Technology Shaping Our Future
Research scientist and TED speaker Janelle Shane shares her insights on artificial intelligence (AI) in You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place. In this course, you’ll learn what AI is – and isn’t – and what its current limitations are. You’l...
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About this course
Research scientist and TED speaker Janelle Shane shares her insights on artificial intelligence (AI) in You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place. In this course, you’ll learn what AI is – and isn’t – and what its current limitations are. You’ll also discover how the collaboration between AI and human intelligence can lead to new, exciting innovations.
Course outline
10 topics · 35 min
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Does AI Even Mean?
- 3 AI Has the Brain of a Worm
- 4 AI Needs Narrow Tasks
- 5 AI Does Not Understand What You’re Trying to Get It to Do
- 6 AI Will Take the Path of Least Resistance
- 7 Many AI Tasks Are Really “Copy the Humans”
- 8 Sometimes, It’s Humans Taking an AI’s Job
- 9 Conclusion
- 10 Quiz
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