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Course: Artificial Intelligence: Distinguishing Between Fact and Fiction
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Thank you for joining us on Artificial Intelligence: Distinguishing Between Fact and Fiction. We hope that you enjoyed the learning experience. This course is part of the online MBA with …
Review of the week
Congratulations on completing this week. We hope you’ve enjoyed this look at Human Learning and Artificial Intelligence. This week, we have: Explored the different learning types in animals and humans …
The greatest challenge
In this video, Mark Elshaw discusses what he considers to be the greatest challenge in simulating human intelligence. Your task To what extent do you agree with what Mark Elshaw …
Robotics
In the popular imagination, Artificial Intelligence is commonly associated with embodied talking robots. Robots in popular culture The word robot is derived from the Czech word ‘robota’ meaning ‘worker’ or …
The benefits of AI
In this video, Mark Elshaw lists what he considers to be the biggest benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for humanity. We’ll look at some of them in greater detail as …
Body movements
In the video above, Coventry University emeritus professor Kevin Warwick talks about his motivation behind and experience of becoming the world’ s first cyborg. This video covers one of the …
Simulating games
In the video above, Dr Mark Elshaw talks about his experience of participating in the British Machine Intelligence Award. His video covers some key themes of this step, especially how …
Alan Turing and imitation
Automatic Computing Engine (1947) Turing in 1947 held a lecture entitled ‘Automatic Computing Engine’ presented to the London Mathematical Society. In the lecture, he stressed the importance of developing a …
Learning in the animal kingdom
Before we explore how humans learn in greater depth, let’s take a look at the animal kingdom and explore the types of learning that we see there. For animals as …
Learning styles in humans
In the previous step, you saw some ways in which animals learn. These ways are also employed by humans, but there are some styles of learning unique to our species. …
A new week
Welcome to the second week of Artificial Intelligence: Distinguishing Between Fact and Fiction. Last week, we explored natural intelligence (AI), while this week, we’ll concentrate on human learning and artificial …
The need for greater diversity in AI algorithms
So how can unconscious bias in artificial intelligence (AI) be addressed? One possibility is to have greater diversity in AI algorithms. In this video, Dr Mark Elshaw a lecturer at …
Review of the week
Congratulations on completing this week and thank you for joining us for this first week of Artificial Intelligence: Distinguishing Between Fact and Fiction. We hope you have enjoyed this look …
The computational perspective
The early pioneers we encountered in the previous step can be seen as following a computational perspective to intelligence. The computational perspective In the computational sense, intelligence is seen as …
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