Course Title: How Human Can We Make It? The Philosophical and Historical Foundations of AI and the Future of Sentient Machines
Instructor: John Hessler
Brought to you by Odyssey
August 31, 2023 - October 05, 2023 (6 Sessions)
Thursday, 6:30 PM ET
In Person at the Homewood Campus
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The launch of the large language model and interactive application ChatGPT created news headlines around the globe. It's seemingly human-like conversational style and ability to create text, write code, and answer complex questions surprised both the general public and computer scientists. Participants in this course will learn about the history and philosophy artificial intelligence, starting with the birth of the earliest artificial neural networks, all the way to the newest large language models like BERT and ChatGPT. We will discuss why these new AI models are so good at human like conversation and explore the foundations of techniques like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback and the Attention Networks that make them so "humanlike". Students will also discuss the philosophy and ethics behind these models and learn more about how to use complex tools on their own. No programming or coding knowledge necessary.
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