Introduction

17 January - Introduction Course Website

24 January - History, Hype & Reality Computer History Museum - AI & Robotics Kaplan - AI: What Everyone Needs to Know - ch. 1-3

31 January - AI & Communication Turing - Computing Machinery & Intelligence Gunkel - Communication & Artificial Intelligence Wortham & Bryson - Communication PBS - The Chinese Room (video)

7 February - Terminology & Details Kaplan - AI: What Everyone Needs to Know - ch. 4 & 8 Steiner - Algorithms Are Taking Over (video) Garrett - A World Run on Algorithms? Howard - Machine Learning (video) Maker Exercise #1 - Algorithms

14 February - Robophilosophy (Vienna) No Class Meeting Maker Exercise #1 - Algorithms

AI & Communication Applications

21 February - Machine Translation Weaver Memo Inside Google Translate (video) Poibeau - Machine Translation

28 February - Natural Language Processing Weizenbaum - Contextual Understanding by Computers RadioLab - Talking to Machines Hirschberg & Manning - Advances in NLP Gunkel - Computational Interpersonal Communication

7 March - Building Chatterbots PandoraBot QuickStart PandoraBot Tutorial Maker Exercise #2 - Chatterbot Competition

14 March - Spring Break No Class Meeting

21 March - Social Robots & Digital Assistants Jibo - Promotional Video Breazeal - Personal Robots (video) Guzman - Making AI Safe de Graaf - Human-Robot Relationships

28 March - Conference No Class Meeting

4 April - Computational Creativity Amper (video) & Taryn Southern - Break Free Sunspring (video) NPR - Cooking with Watson (video) Colton & Wiggins - Computational Creativity

Social Opportunities & Challenges

11 April - Technological Unemployment Kaplan - AI: What Everyone Needs to Know - ch. 6 & 7 Halpern - How Robots are Taking Over McAfee - Are Droids Taking Our Jobs? (video) PBS - Will Your Job Be Done by a Machine?

18 April - Social Issues Crawford & Whittaker - AI Now Initiative (video) / (transcript) Knight - The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI Gunkel - Mind the Gap

25 April - Machine Question PBS Ideas - When Will We Worry about the Well Being of Robots? (video) The Machine Question, ch. 1 & 2

Course Conclusion

2 May - Robot Apocalypse Maker Exercise #3 - How To Survive the Robot Apocalypse? Course Evaluation Final Exam Study Guide

9 May (6pm) Final Examination