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B.S. In Artificial Intelligence – Curriculum

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Post by mmirate »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #9
abhisuri97 wrote: post #7

Yay for an ethics component! Albeit, I have a strong feeling it'll be treated as a (for lack of a better term) BS class since the audience this caters to isn't necessarily those interested in academia but are more likely to do this track b/c it'll be more beneficial for jobs.

I had an ethics class for my Bachelors in Science at UIC (part of the engineering department). Is an Ethics class not standard for the CS curriculum?

It is, and it's still very much a fluff class.

Such is its proper place, unless and until CS becomes a profession.

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Post by 3rdAccount »

marsrover wrote: post #12

Pretty cool. It’s funny. Several times in my life I’ve seen the resumes of older people (70/80s) and they’ll have some generic degree that doesn’t exist today. I wonder if 50 years from now kids will look at our CS degrees like that.

Why I left the nano engineering program super fast. Come to find out, nobody hires for that. You can go into research only. While a traditional engineering degree can do research or thousands of jobs.

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

abhisuri97 wrote: post #6
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #5

I was prepared to be disappointed, however for an undergraduate I think this is pretty good. That said, a huge omission seems to be some form of "Is this a data/ML problem?" class. Call it product management, product development or something else, but I constantly see clients asking for ML solutions when they don't even have data that would inform an ML solution. Often it's a people or process problem, or poorly defi…

I think this is done to death in any intro to ML/AI class (at least speaking from an undergrad perspective).

I was out of school well before the ML boom hit, but from an enterprise perspective few seem to have gotten the memo - even young people.

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Post by brianorwhatever »

mmirate wrote: post #11
zitterbewegung wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an ethics class for my Bachelors in Science at UIC (part of the engineering department). Is an Ethics class not standard for the CS curriculum?

It is, and it's still very much a fluff class. Such is its proper place, unless and until CS becomes a profession.

I'd argue we need a lot more ethics training in computer science professions

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Post by mmirate »

brianorwhatever wrote: post #17
mmirate wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, and it's still very much a fluff class. Such is its proper place, unless and until CS becomes a profession.

I'd argue we need a lot more ethics training in computer science professions

Without teeth, the ACM Code of Ethics is just a bunch of lofty-sounding words on a website.

In this situation, ethics is management's job, and value-creation and loss-avoidance (with appropriate documentation to list-out during pay-review) are our jobs. Sum ergo mihi prosum.

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Post by autokad »

marsrover wrote: post #12

Pretty cool. It’s funny. Several times in my life I’ve seen the resumes of older people (70/80s) and they’ll have some generic degree that doesn’t exist today. I wonder if 50 years from now kids will look at our CS degrees like that.

I kind of have a problem with an BS in AI. the degree itself proves no edge over a BS in com sci / stats / etc. when applying for graduate programs, and there are very few positions in the field that would hire someone that was not a masters or PHD. However the same BS in AI isn't as applicable to other said undergrad majors.

seems like someone would be limiting their options for little gains.

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