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December 20, 2019 1:58 PM   Subscribe

Our goal is to demystify AI - Are you wondering how AI might affect your job or your life? Do you want to learn more about what AI really means — and how it’s created? Do you want to understand how AI will develop and affect us in the coming years?
posted by dobbs (8 comments total) 24 users marked this as a favorite
 
It's not AI. There is no AI.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 3:11 PM on December 20, 2019 [1 favorite]


And... that's what the AI wants you to think.
posted by sammyo at 3:16 PM on December 20, 2019


There is no I in AI.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:57 PM on December 20, 2019


I'm into this. I've been studying linear algebra fo machine learning. AI has a drama laden definition, tho.
posted by waving at 5:03 PM on December 20, 2019


Who is this Al? Is he someone I'd have to be using a serif font to care about?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:56 PM on December 20, 2019 [2 favorites]


I did this mooc, with a group of colleagues, earlier this year. We liked it quite a lot. It was very non-mathy, but it did get some rather complex ideas across. We were a group of university educated people, but mainly from the arts and Humanities. Some hadn't done maths some high school. I had a little background with implementing simple neutral nets but not really understanding them. There wasn't anything new for me in this but I thought it brought everything together very well. For colleagues to whom it was all new, it worked well. One person found one week too hard but was okay again after that.

We are now doing the Stanford Machine Learning MOOC and we've lost 80% of the group over just the first four weeks.
posted by lollusc at 8:27 PM on December 20, 2019 [2 favorites]


There is no I in AI.

They address this. They do a pretty good job of critiquing the idea of AI and public discourse around it.
posted by lollusc at 8:28 PM on December 20, 2019




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