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B.S. In Artificial Intelligence – Curriculum

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Post by thadk »

thadk wrote: post #73
hestefisk wrote: post #66

Disappointed to not see any philosophy of science subjects in here, whilst it is really the cornerstone of “thinking about AI”. Yes ethics is highly relevant, but I think it is more important for AI / ML practitioners to be able to reason about the foundations, methodology, and limitations of AI from the perspective of human knowing, what constitutes intelligence, scientific reductionism etc. I suppose US schools are…

Cognitive science warns away from a heavy dependence on behavioralist/probabilistic approaches in many cases. That CogSci special requirement seems to be more reasonable one aimed to guide thinking about past AI and philosophical struggles than a generic philosophy class for an undergraduate student. Of course, there does seem to be room for a few philosophy electives here should the student enjoy it.

I'm now curious what typical examples of course titles would be in the "Philosophy of Science" area outside the US though?

Here is an example of Cognitive Science's preferred way of thinking about AI: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-...

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Post by justinhj »

hestefisk wrote: post #66

Disappointed to not see any philosophy of science subjects in here, whilst it is really the cornerstone of “thinking about AI”. Yes ethics is highly relevant, but I think it is more important for AI / ML practitioners to be able to reason about the foundations, methodology, and limitations of AI from the perspective of human knowing, what constitutes intelligence, scientific reductionism etc. I suppose US schools are…

I did a BSc in AI in the 90s and we had courses on the Philosophy of Science and another on the Philosophy of consciousness. While they were both interesting, neither has been relevant to my real world work in the last 25 years.

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Post by xikrib »

tome wrote: post #82
Qasaur wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>We need to improve the actual technology first before we shape it in an ethical or philosophical way. I disagree. How can we even begin to design or improve a system that emulates intelligence if we do not even know what it means to be intelligent?

"We" (in aggregate) are not trying to design a system that emulates intelligence. "We" are trying to solve problems, make money, and accumulate power by using techniques that are only expediently described as "intelligent" or "learning".

Wow that's pretty sad

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Post by kirkules »

msie wrote: post #89

I find it odd that a Bachelor of Science is abbreviated as B.S. here. I thought it would be BSc. Interestingly, if you search the site for BSc you get a number of hits where it's used properly.

Yeah, I originally thought this link was going to be about BS people say when they think they're talking about AI.
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