Course Description
Students learn how AI is related to our lives and acquire basic ways of thinking to become “life creators”—AI personnel capable of creating their own lives.
In what is currently known as the third AI boom, we are living surrounded by AI without even realizing it. Video distribution websites recommend videos that they think we would want to watch next, and news websites promote articles they think we want to read. In the near future, AI-powered robots will do bothersome housework for us, and we will be able to go wherever we want just by telling an automated car our destination. We will come to lead more and more convenient lives in spaces filled with things are comfortable that AI provides us with. However, if AI only selects and provides those things that are comfortable to us, is there not a risk that we would not consider the opinions of someone whose ideas differ from ours? In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when we cannot move around freely, we are viewing the world through our smartphones. Is the world where we view information selected by AI through our smartphones real?
As we will be living with AI for a long time, we need to understand what kinds of mechanisms present-day AI operates under. In this course, students will learn about the fundamental ideas behind the AI used today and examples of its application. Students will also think about how modern AI is used and the issues associated with it, while considering various perspectives on how to forge a path in their fields of expertise without being at the mercy of AI.