To help understand the landscape of AI and also get introduced to each other, let’s survey some examples that students find interesting.
In this week’s Discussion forum, please make a two-part post:
Part 1: Introduction
Post something interesting about yourself.
Part 2: AI Examples
Suppose someone asks you: Tech companies and governments are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI. Is AI worth the billions or is this just a bubble? Is AI actually useful for anything in the real world?
Please post a brief (50–200 word) statement where you give an example of an application of AI that you think is useful, interesting, or important. (Try to pick an example that other students haven’t mentioned yet.) Include:
- An image of the system in action, or a link to something that describes it.
- Some evidence that the technology is, or will soon be, of practical interest. Who would pay for it?
- Describe what about its behavior merits the description “intelligent”. Referring back to the contextual reading for this week, would Turing have considered this behavior “intelligent”? Would you consider it intelligent?
Also read your peers’ posts and reply to at least one.
Where to find AI examples?
- Think of some topic outside of computing that you find important or interesting. Search for “AI” or “ML” combined with that term.
- Pick a large company and look at their “AI blog” (or sometimes “tech blog” or “engineering blog”)
- Providers of AI computing, like NVIDIA, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc. like to show off what people are doing with their tools
- Lots of YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, news sources, etc. like to talk about AI; see Resources for some examples.
- https://PapersWithCode.com/
- Subscribe to an AI or Machine Learning newsletter, podcast, or social media account. Good ones start and stop all the time, so we can’t list them here.
- AI work shows up at many academic conferences.