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In the fall of 2019, Myriam Rafla and I taught two sections of the Cincom course MEDIALAB with a focus on AI.聽 The aim of this course according to the core competencies is to plan and execute a media event.聽 In our MEDIALAB course, the event was related to AI.

Flow of Coursework

Ray Kurtzweil warned of the coming聽, when computers would one day achieve autonomy and take control over their creators. Well, to some extent we聽are聽governed by numbers, and machine learning聽is聽autonomous, but this begs the question: what role do algorithms play in our everyday lives and to what degree are we handing our agency over to them. Perhaps we run the risk of ceding control to intelligent systems by allowing our definitions of 鈥渋ntelligence鈥� to be determined by the technological needs of the designers of these systems.

This site, and this course then, begin by asking what we mean by intelligence, and what the implications are of removing human imperfection from the intelligence equation.聽 It explores how artificial intelligence is impacting the world we are creating and what our responsibilities might be in confronting the new technologies.

Documents Handed Out to Students

Course Outline

Course Schedule

Research Proposal Guidelines

Self Evaluation form

Readings

Students Are Oriented to the Various Domains Relating to AI

Step 1

• intelligence itself
• narrow versus general AI
• AI鈥檚 impact on jobs
• AI and language, consciousness and agency

and a general selection of widely circulated topics related to AI.聽 The orientation involved reading short articles, watching videos, and then discussing students鈥� interests and concerns related to the topic.

For example:

• data and dating:

Or,

• competing notions of Intelligence
• the general intelligence (suggested by Charles Spearman) and IQ tests
• multiple intelligences (suggested by Howard Garner)

Students then wrote a response to a spoken-word piece called I鈥檓 Not Batman, identifying the various 鈥渋ntelligences鈥� on display as per the above.

Step 2

Students perused a collection of blog posts to find one of particular interest to them.聽 They then researched it further to create an infographic using Photoshop and Canva (like the ones below) and presented it and their research to the class:

Or this:

Step 3

Students developed their research and planned the event to present their work.

So a project on AI and culture:

Became an analysis of聽China鈥檚 Social Credit Scoring System

Or this look at AI and Sustainability became a study of AI鈥檚 role in fashion:

See Student Projects:

(The future of Make Up)

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(Upgrading our faces)

(AI and Celebrity)

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(An animation about virtual identity)

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(Conversation with a machine)