AI UNVEILED: UNDERSTANDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR WORLD

Associate Professor Jonathan Shock, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town                                      

Thursday 18–Friday 19 January 9.15 am COURSE FEES R220; Staff and students R110

This course will take a tour through the fascinating history of artificial intelligence to bring us up to date with some of the new, powerful technologies which we have at our fingertips today. We will get to grips with neural networks, generative AI and more, and see how these are shaping our world. We will also confront the potential dangers and ethical dilemmas posed by these advancements.

Lecture titles

  1. From biological neurons to artificial neural networks: the history of artificial intelligence
  2. ChatGPT, image generation and more: from poetry to fake news at the press of a button

Recommended reading

Christian, B. 2020. The Alignment Problem. W.W. Norton & Company.

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