DESCRIPTION | This course provides guidance to undergraduate students of the AI major for their academic path and future. This course is mostly introductory and aims to inspire UG students for their academic path development and growth of maturity during their UG study. Activities may include seminars, workshops, advising and sharing sessions, interaction with faculty and teaching staff, and discussion with student peers or alumni. Graded P or F. |
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Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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L01 (6249) | Fr 09:00AM - 09:50AM | Rm 102, E4 | CHEN, Jintai CHEN, Yingcong DAI, Enyan HU, Xuming LIANG, Junwei LIU, Li RIKOS, APOSTOLOS SUN, Ying WANG, Hao WANG, Xin XIE, Sihong XIE, Zeke YUE, Yutao | 100 | 70 | 30 | 0 | The class will be delivered by the following instructors as below. Week 1: Junwei LIANG Week 2: Xin WANG Week 3: HAO WANG Week 4: Sihong XIE Week 5: Li LIU Week 6: Zeke XIE Week 7: Yutao YUE Week 8: Xuming HU Week 9: Jintai CHEN Week 10: Yingcong CHEN Week 11: Ying SUN Week 12: Enyan Dai Week 13: Apostolos Rikos |
DESCRIPTION | This introductory course surveys the explosive area of AI ethics and illuminates relevant AI concepts with no prior background needed. Key topics include Fake News Bots; AI Driven Social Media Displacing Traditional Journalism; drone Warfare; Elimination of Traditional Jobs; Privacy-violating Advertising; Monopolistic Network Effects; Biased AI Decision/Recognition Algorithms; Deepfakes; Autonomous Vehicles; Automated Hedge Fund Trading, etc. Through the course, students will be able to understand how human civilization will survive amid the rise of AI, what are the new rules in the new era, how to preserve ethics when facing the threats of extinction and what are engineers’ and entrepreneurs’ ethical responsibilities. |
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Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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L01 (6250) | MoWe 07:30PM - 08:50PM | Rm 228, E2 | HU, Xuming | 45 | 45 | 0 | 0 |