AI and the Illusion of Intelligence

Description

In this course, you will :

• Provide a non-technical overview of where AI has come from and where it is headed
• We will see that there is no reason to expect AI to outperform humans. Instead, we are learning to create the illusion of intelligence with AI.

Syllabus :

1. Illusions of Intelligence

• Some Curious Experiments
• Alan Turing and the Imitation Game
• Illusions of Intelligence
• The Explosion of Big Data

 

2. The Technology of Language

• The Chomskyan Revolution
• Descartes' Miracle
• The Fatal Flaw of the Chomskyan Revolution
• Doing Violence to Language: the Ngram

 

3. Will Computers Ever Understand Us?

• Can Computers Understand Us?
• Understanding and Meaning
• Deep Learning and Neural Machine Translation
• The Future
• Moore's Law Does Not Make the Singularity Likely

 

4. AI -- a New Kind of Being?

• We are not Computers
• “An Engine, the Parts of which are Men”
• From ​Gilligan's Island t​o​ Lost
• AI ​is​ the Improvement of Human Intelligence
• Re-wiring the Human Parts
• A New Kind of Being

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