Any necessary schedule updates will be posted here.
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TOPICS |
Due |
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1 |
8/26 |
Course Intro |
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1 |
8/28 |
Definitions of AI, ML, and Deep Learning “20 Questions” in class activity. Paper based. Instructor lead. |
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2 |
9/2 |
LABOR DAY |
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2 |
9/4 |
AI Long-reads case study 1 (The Techno-Optimist Manifesto ) Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning |
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3 |
9/9 |
Reinforcement Learning & Interpretability Quiz 1 – Kinds of ML |
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3 |
9/11 |
AI Long-reads case study 2 (Privacy, Censorship, Venice.AI ) Roadmap Activity 1 |
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4 |
9/16 |
Roadmap Activity 1 Continued Quiz 2 – Reinforcement Learning & Interpretability |
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4 |
9/18 |
Correlation Matrices / Dimension Reduction |
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5 |
9/23 |
AI Long-reads case study 3 (Current events in AI – Is AI going to eat SaaS? ) Managing Bias |
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5 |
9/25 |
Recommender Systems |
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6 |
9/30 |
Roadmap Review – Shafer-Roadmap.pdf 05 MIS3536-Intro-Bayesian-Cognition.pptx Quiz 3 – Managing Bias |
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6 |
10/2 |
AI Long-reads case study 4 ( Is the EU Doomed to Miss Out on AI?) Roadmap Activity 4 |
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7 |
10/7 |
Roadmap Activity 4B Quiz 4 – Recommender Systems Other stuff: |
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7 |
10/9 |
AI Long-reads case study 5 ( What’s Really Going on at OpenAI? ) Intro to LLMs |
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8 |
10/14 |
07 MIS3586-LLMs Revisited.pptx Roadmap Activity 5 |
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8 |
10/16 |
OPEN LAB class and CATCH UP opportunity. Watch this on your own: Intro to Large Language Models ( Andrej Karpathy )
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9 |
10/21 |
When AI Hallucinates 08 MIS3536-When-AI-Hallucinates.pptx Assignment 1 Quiz 5 – LLMs |
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9 |
10/23 |
AI Long-reads case study 6 Exam Prep
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10 |
10/28 |
Midterm Exam |
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10 |
10/30 |
AI Long-reads case study 7 |
Assignment 1 |
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11 |
11/4 |
Workplace Activity 2 Assignment 2 – Due 11/13 What’s the Gartner Hype cycle? And – discuss – Where are we? |
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11 |
11/6 |
AI Long-reads case study 8 Excel Power Query (Demo) |
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12 |
11/11 |
Announce the “Long Reads” Survey ChatGPT for content generation ChatGPT for idea generation / brainstorming |
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12 |
11/13 |
ChatGPT for code generation See: funcode.zip Assignment 3 ( see this new-and-improved link ) |
Assignment 2 |
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13 |
11/18 |
AI Long-reads case study 9 |
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13 |
11/20 |
Ethics and the future of AI 09 MIS3536-Ethics-AI-Future.pptx Assignments 4 and 5 |
Assignment 3 |
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14 |
11/25 |
FALL BREAK |
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14 |
11/27 |
FALL BREAK |
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15 |
12/2 |
Has AGI been Achieved? https://youtu.be/CUwhk5C4bb0?si=ZltojmgcHQZaxpz9 AI Long-reads case study 10 https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-computer-use-ai-explainer-2024-10 |
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15
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12/4 |
AI and Cybersecurity – The-MS-response-to-Kevin-Roose.pptx |
Assignment 4 |
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16 |
12/9 |
Review for the final exam – MIS3536-Exam2-Study-Guide.pdf |
Assignment 5 |
FINAL EXAM – Friday 12/13 10:30-12:30 in Alter 239