Course Programs

2024

Life Creator Theory

Code:G2B50710 / Instructor:MARUHASHI Shotaro

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.

Keywords

AI, artificial intelligence

Course Plan

Session/ Lecturer in charge
Session 1 Orientation Hayashi Ken’ichi, Takano Futaba, Maruhashi Shōtarō
Session 2 What present-day AI enables (1) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 3 What present-day AI enables (2) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 4 The definition and history of AI (1) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 5 AI and intellectual property strategy Hayashi Ken’ichi, Tamai Katsuya, Maruhashi Shōtarō
Session 6 The definition and history of AI (2) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 7 Mechanisms of present-day AI (1) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 8 Mechanisms of present-day AI (2) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 9 AI and the law and ethics Hayashi Ken’ichi, Kajiya Atsushi, Maruhashi Shōtarō
Session 10 AI and fairness and ethics (1) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 11 AI and fairness and ethics (2) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 12 AI and medicine and startups Hayashi Ken’ichi, medical researcher (TBA), Maruhashi Shōtarō
Session 13 AI and occupations (1) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 14 AI and occupations (2) Hayashi Ken’ichi
Session 15 Summary Hayashi Ken’ichi

* A short test will be held in each session of the class.
* Sessions may be reordered. This information will be provided in the orientation in the first session.