Artificial Intelligence

We are teaching secondary school students the AI Age course.

Time: Thursday, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Location: One-North Launchpad Block #67

Step into the AI Age with a practical introduction to modern artificial intelligence, its applications, and the people, tools, and ethics shaping the future. Our focus is on establishing a comprehensive and deep understanding of the AI Age and cultivating the core skills in the AI Age, especially critical, creative and compassionate thinking.

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Lesson 12: The Future of AI

In the last lesson of this course, we will put AI in a broader historical and philosophical context. We will discuss how AI helps usher a new economic revolution and this economic revolution will bring about a whole new society. We will also explore the philosophical debate surrounding the dark side of AI, especially the possiblity of AI surpassing human intelligence.

Students will have the chance to imagine various new ways of our future life enabled by AI, and participate in live debate about philosophical issues of AI.

Syllabus

The AI Age Has Arrived -July 16
AI in everyday life, education, industry, academia, government, and military; what is AI?
Chatting with AI -July 23
Basic applications: querying information and learning knowledge; prompting basics.
Classical AI vs Machine Learning -July 30
Two different approaches to AI: a historical perspective.
How Machines Learn -August 6
Data, neural networks, and training.
Ethics and Risks -August 13
Fairness, copyright, privacy, and harmful content.
Python for AI -August 20
Basic data structures, operations, control flow, and functions.
Large Language Models and Generative AI -August 27
Basic principles and characteristics.
Beyond Chatting -September 3
Advanced applications: writing, translating, coding, analysis, and problem solving.
Building Your Own Mini-Agent -September 24
AI workflows and autonomous task execution.
Multimodal AI: Images and Speech -October 1
AI that sees, paints, and speaks.
AI in Education and Job Transformation -October 8
New ways of learning and working.
The Future of AI -October 15
Economic revolution and philosophical debate.