AI : The New Electricity | Project Sayang

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 and Adoption of AI: Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore

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