AI : The New Electricity

    • AI is everywhere, but what is AI?
      • AI, in its widest sense
      • Strong versus weak AI
      • Four types of AI
        • Acting humanly: The Turing test
        • Thinking humanly: Cognitive science
        • Thinking rationally: Laws of Thought
        • Acting rationally
    • A short history of AI
      • Universal Turing Machine
      • AI research born in Dartmouth College workshop
      • Good old-fashioned AI
      • Expert Systems
      • Internet and World Wide Web
      • Humanoid Robots
      • IBM Deep Blue beats World Chess Champion
      • Self-Driving Cars
      • IBM Watson’s defeats Jeopardy!’s champions
      • The advent of Deep Learning
    • Intelligence: human and machine
      • What is intelligence?
      • Human intelligence versus machine intelligence
      • Can a machine think?
    • What is an algorithm?
      • Algorithm as practical procedure
      • A generalized and abstract view of algorithm
      • Algorithm that produces algorithm
    • The rise of computational power
      • Memory
      • Computation
      • Learning
      • Moore’s Law
      • Substrate independence
    • AI in science fiction and the movies
      • The three laws of robotics
      • AI that cares and loves
      • Star Trek: The Ultimate Computer
    • The imaginative machine
      • AI that creates pictures
      • Anticipative AI
        • Google search bar
        • Google Now
      • Augmented human-machine imagination
        • Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings blogsite
        • Netflix House of Cards
        • Vibrant Lives project of ASU
    • AI and the 4th Industrial Revolution
      • The first, second, and third industrial revolution
      • The fourth industrial revolution
      • AI and the Earth
      • Jobs disruption and displacement
    • The current frontier in AI
      • Deep Learning
      • Game Playing AIs: Chess, Atari Games, Jeopardy!, Go
      • Advance in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
      • Theorem proving AI
      • Recursive Self-Improvement: AlphaGo Zero
      • Collaborative AI agents playing StarCraft II: AlphaStar
      • AI for Scientific Discovery: AlphaFold
    • General intelligence as the holy grail
      • Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
      • Time Scale to AGI and whether it is good for humanity
        • Luddites
        • Beneficial Movement
        • Digital Utopians
        • Virtually Nobody
        • Techno-skeptics
      • The Science of Consciousness
      • Is it possible for a Machine to be Conscious?
    • New frontiers in AI: Towards superintelligence, singularity, and a post-human age
      • Beyond AGI: The Law of Accelerating Returns
      • Intelligence Explosion and the Singularity
      • Cyborg and Uploading Minds to Machines
      • Machines Trumping Humans in Intelligence
    • AI superpowers and the global order
      • Aftermath Scenarios in the Age of Superintelligence
        • Coexistence of superintelligence with humans
        • Humans dominate by preventing superintelligence to exist
        • Superintelligence dominate with human extinction
      • Flourishing of Life on Earth and towards the Universe
    • Crisis: danger and opportunity — the future in our hands
      • Preparing for the future of AI for Humanity
      • Ethical Principles and Governance Structure
        • Asilomar AI Principles: Future of Life Institute
        • The Tenets of AI: Partnership on AI
        • The European Strategy on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: Too much Ethics, too little Security
        • Discussion Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Personal Data – Fostering Responsible Development

The curriculum consists of 4 parts. Go to Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3| Part 4