Course Overview
This course gives you an understanding of what artificial intelligence is and how it is used and applied in society and research methods. It explores the ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence, and the uses of machine learning.
Learning Outcomes
This course will help you to:
- Describe the origins and development of AI
- Identify useful modern definitions of AI
- Evaluate the pervasiveness of AI in our society
- Discuss the importance of AI in research methods
- Compare the various uses of and applicability of AI in research methods
- Understand ethics and its relation to AI
- Interpret the arguments for and against AI
- Reflect on your standing about the potential ethical challenges of AI
- Recognize what machine learning is and how it is used
- Compare the different machine learning methods
- Evaluate the challenges of machine learning