Calendar

Warning I would highly suggest not waiting until the last minute for the readings. Some readings can be dense and they are the type that you benefit from thinking about a bit. You will also be expected to discuss these readings and any lack of discussion in group/class settings will be reflected within your grade.

22-Aug

Introduction to course & Prof. Dancy & AI dev overview

24-Aug

Design of artifacts & Python Overview

Reading for discussion - Sciences of the Artificial, Introduction by John Laird AND Sciences of the Artificial, Chapter 1

Python practice #1 assignment assigned - Due 28-Aug, 11pm

29-Aug

Design of Artifacts

Readings for discussion - Sciences of the Artificial, Chapter 5 AND Discriminatory design, liberatory imagination (Intro to Capitvating Technology) Design your own AI Assignment assigned - Due 04-Sept, 11pm

31-Aug

Complexity

Reading for discussion - Sciences of the Artificial, Chapter 8 & Hierarchy and History in Simon’s “Architecture of Complexity” (Agre)

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

05-Sept

A note on Intelligence

Reading for discussion - The problem with intelligence (Cave)

Warning I would highly suggest not waiting until the last minute for the readings. Some readings can be dense and they are the type that you benefit from thinking about a bit. You will also be expected to discuss these readings and any lack of discussion in group/class settings will be reflected within your grade.

07-Sept

Towards Architectures

Reading: Newell, 1992 (Section by Newell & not peer Commentary; Pages 425-437)

Optional Reading: Newell, 1973

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

12-Sept

Memory and cognitive architectures

Reading: ACT-R, Memory systems of the brain

Optional: HM video

14-Sept

Cognitive Systems

Reading: Intelligent Behavior in Humans and Machines, Introduction to ACT-R (Introduction to [including] Procedural Memory System)

Optional Reading: Why robot brains need symbols

Cognitive Systems Assignment 1 assigned

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

19-Sept

ACT-R FAQ & Assignment workday

21-Sept

The common model & ACT-R

Reading Standard Model of the Mind & Intro to ACT-R (Declarative Memory system to end)

Optional Reading: Emotion in the Common Model of Cognition

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

26-Sept

Distributed representation for cognitive systems

Reading: Holographic memory (Focus on sections 1-6 & 9-End)

Cognitive Systems Assignment 2 assigned

28-Sept

Higher level representation for the common model

Reading: Higher-level Knowledge, Rational and Social Levels Constraints of the Common Model of the Mind

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

Warning I would highly suggest not waiting until the last minute for the readings. Some readings can be dense and they are the type that you benefit from thinking about a bit. You will also be expected to discuss these readings and any lack of discussion in group/class settings will be reflected within your grade.

03-Oct

Sylvia Wynter & the Human Pt 1

Reading for discussion: The Human (Global Social Theory), Unsettling coloniality (Intro, Part 1, & Part 2; pgs 257-303)

05-Oct

Project day

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

10-Oct

Sylvia Wynter & the Human Pt 2

Reading for discussion: Unsettling coloniality (Remaining pages, Part 3 & Part 4)

12-Oct

AI & Blackness/Whiteness

Reading for discussion: AI & Blackness & The whiteness of AI

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

Warning I would highly suggest not waiting until the last minute for the readings. Some readings can be dense and they are the type that you benefit from thinking about a bit. You will also be expected to discuss these readings and any lack of discussion in group/class settings will be reflected within your grade.

17-Oct

Introduction to Neural Networks

Reading: Nielsen Chapter 1

(Focus on following sections: Perceptrons, Sigmoid Neurons)

19-Oct

More Neural Networks

Reading: Nielsen Chapter 2

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

24-Oct

Deep(er) learning

Dancy’s traveling - Guest lecture

Reading: Nielsen Chapter 6

26-Oct

Project work day

Dancy’s traveling

31-Oct

Group Project Updates

02-Nov

(Fully connected) NNs explanations and practice

Neural Network assignment 1 assigned

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

07-Nov

Transformers 1

Attention and Transformers (11.1-11.4)

09-Nov

Transformers 2

Attention and Transformers (11.5-11.7)

Warning I would highly suggest not waiting until the last minute for the readings. Some readings can be dense and they are the type that you benefit from thinking about a bit. You will also be expected to discuss these readings and any lack of discussion in group/class settings will be reflected within your grade.

14-Nov

Reproducing the world with AI

Reading for discussion: Stochastic Parrots

Optional Reading: Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases

Neural Network assignment 2 assigned

16-Nov

Project updates & workday (in-class)

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

21-Nov & 23-Nov

Thanksgiving Break

28-Nov

Some Methods for more ethical AI

Reading for discussion: Datasheets for Datasets, Model Cards

Other readings that could be useful (for your own work)

AI in Context

The forgotten margins of AI Ethics

30-Nov

Final project presentations

(Be prepared for a possible) Quiz

05-Dec

Final project presentations

07-Dec

Final project presentations

LAST DAY OF CLASS!