Is CMU trying to compete with Udacity? I personally couldn’t take a degree in AI seriously.
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Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
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Re: Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
#42Looking at the course list ( https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu... ), I'd struggle to believe that students are going to come out of this strong enough to be effective in AI. I never went to CMU, so I don't know how rigorous the "Modern Regression" course is for actually getting people sufficiently well-grounded in statistics to be able to overcome p-hacking and similar fallacies in analysis…
How is that different from any other Undergraduate program. At the end of the day undergraduate degrees are like the bare essentials of education - there is a life long journey of learning in any technical field.
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#44I think I now know how the electrical engineers felt in the '50s and '60s.
What do you mean?
That was when computer science emerged as an academic discipline distinct from the design and implementation of computers themselves; up to that point, an electrical engineer probably had the confidence that they were at the forefront of technological change.
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#45I love the ethics requirements. My current uni doesn't have this and I'm so glad I took it at the college I attended as an underclassmen. The different ethical theories apply so well to a lot of work being done in computer science.
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#46Looking at the course list ( https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu... ), I'd struggle to believe that students are going to come out of this strong enough to be effective in AI. I never went to CMU, so I don't know how rigorous the "Modern Regression" course is for actually getting people sufficiently well-grounded in statistics to be able to overcome p-hacking and similar fallacies in analysis…
I took Modern Regression at CMU for my Statistics minor: yes, it's rigorous, with an emphasis on linear regression (and the necessity for proper p-value handling), with plenty of matrix algebra and statistical theory.
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#47Looking at the course list ( https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu... ), I'd struggle to believe that students are going to come out of this strong enough to be effective in AI. I never went to CMU, so I don't know how rigorous the "Modern Regression" course is for actually getting people sufficiently well-grounded in statistics to be able to overcome p-hacking and similar fallacies in analysis…
CMU stats courses are stellar - especially this one, which was written by Cosma Shalizi, I believe
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#48This feels like a more useful CS degree, IMO. I don't do anything like machine learning, but for both scaling backend services and building day-to-day business logic, I've gotten a ton of value out of knowing stats, logistics, and a certain amount of pattern recognition (ah, how terms go in and out of fashion). Take this stuff instead of the other sorts of electives I was picking from - UML Modeling, for instance - a…
You had a whole class dedicated to UML Modeling? That makes me laugh, I know it gets very complicated in high level java applications, but man that feels like a waste of time.
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#49This seems like a publicity stunt. It sounds like a CS degree where the electives are predetermined. Why couldn't they just make this a concentration when it's so intimately intertwined with CS.
The extra overhead graduates will have to deal with doesn't seem worth it.
"AI majors will receive the same solid grounding in computer science and math courses as other computer science students. In addition, they will have additional course work in AI-related subjects such as statistics and probability, computational modeling, machine learning, and symbolic computation."
They even say "other computer science students".