Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) make it possible for us to live more meaningful and creative lives? Have personal computers and the internet really contributed to our happiness? As our daily lives are getting more and more dependent on various computer systems, the internet, and AI technologies, we are facing these questions.
At the same time, the rapid progress of AI technologies has made it possible for machines to do tasks we had deemed only humans can do (playing the game of Go / making music/writing haikus). It poses serious and essential questions: What is the difference between humans and machines. Which attributes make human so special (or not so special). Can computers be creative?
In this lecture, we will examine the impact of the interaction with AI technologies in our everyday life and try to envision the preferable design of "Machine-Human Interaction" and "AI-Human Interaction".
We'll use an easy-to-use AI platform to try out and examine the effectiveness/limitation of various methods of Deep Learning and Machine Learning.
The students are expected to make an interactive website using AI and write an article - for instance, an essay on the positive/negative impact of AI, a fictional story of an AI artist in 2045 - and present it at the end of the semester.
We'll publish an online gallery of the articles.