The AI Course

The AI Course
Peter Brooks, Stuyvesant High School, Spring 2019

Software:

Re-intro to Python:
- Lists, strings, dictionaries, Python2.x vs 3.x, sets
- Classes
- Jupyter notebook
- Possible assignments: doubly-linked lists, priority queues, trees
Informed Search: A*
- Assignment: wordladder (converting hate into love):
- Assignment: shortest path in Netlogo
Constraint Satisfaction Problems
- Assignment: Sudoku solver
- Assignment: Logic puzzle solver
Adversarial Search:
- Assignment: Tic-Tac-Toe
  - Full game trees: plies
- Assignment: Othello
  - heuristics: simple vs. complex patterns
  - possible tournament
- Assignment (optional): Connect-4
Machine Learning 1: Decision Trees:
- Assignment: Restaurant Waiting Decision
- Assignment: Play Tennis
Machine Learning 2 (optional): Logistic/Linear Regression
- Perceptrons
- Simple pattern recognition
  - Assignment: Linear regression using gradient descent

Issues -- Essays:

Main book	Machines That Think by Toby Walsh
Alternate book	Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan (book)
Machine vs. Human Thought essays:	Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing The Chinese Room by John Searle Analogy as the Core of Cognition by Douglas Hofstadter The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think by Douglas Hofstadter
Military uses	The Robotics Revolution by Peter Singer
On Deep/Machine Learning	Deep Learning -- LeCun, Bengio, Hinton (technical article) AlphaGoZero -- Nature (technical articel) AlphaZero -- arXiv (technical article) Machine Learning Explained by Rodney Brooks
Ethics of AI / Legal Issues	The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by Bostrom and Yudkowsky How Should the Law Think about Robots? by Richards and Smart Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (book)

Issues -- Internet Resources:

Learning machine learning	Sebastian Thrun's Intro to AI (similar material to the original MOOC) 3Blue1Brown's YouTube videos on Neural Networks Free E-book on deep learning, recommended by 3Blue1Brown MIT 1-week course on deep learning OpenAI Gym
A.I. Creativity	Google music team: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ DeepArt: https://deepart.io/
Particular techniques	Two Alpha-beta Pruning explained videos (YouTube - 14) and 11-min Quick decision-tree tutorial
CounterCulture Efforts	DataKind AI For All -- Fei-Fei Li's program for under-represented girls.
Security / Surveillance / Privacy	Facebook patent applications inferring your life characteristics NYTimes: How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue Whistleblower interview: Cambridge Analytica using 5 million Facebook profiles for political manipulation exposed by a former employee Venmo account transactions public and visible by default Trevor Paglen: artist photographing mechanisms of surveillance. Face recognition software in schools / surveillance Surveillance identifies Russian poisoners Big Ag on big data: John Deere's collection and use of farmer's agricultural data. Significant issues. NYTimes: Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
Employment Issues	Humans Need Not Apply The Economist on AI and Technological Unemployment
Watching Deep Learning learn	DeepMind learning to play breakout (eventually learning to tunnel) DeepMind teaching entities to walk Learning Nintendo games by watching byte-values increase Deep Mind: Demis Hassabis talk (55 min)
Data Bias	Meredith Whittaker (AI Now org at NYU) on data bias Bias in Machine Learning Why an AI judged beauty contest picked nearly all white winners
Military Uses	Slaughterbots video Boston Dynamics Big Dog
Adversarial attacks on image classifiers and audio assistants	Turning turtles into rifles (by MIT grad students) Hidden audio commands to Siri and Alexa Fooling
Critiques	Skeptical/realistic view of Reinforcement Learning Malcolm Gladwell on the Norden bombsight, and the fetishization of technological solutions Rodney Brooks's Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI (Journal - more academic and complete) Rodney Brooks's The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions (Magazine - shorter, punchier)
Miscellaneous	NYTimes article: a free app to create deepfake videos Saving ignorance from AI Fake pictures / Fake speech How Cheap Labor Drives China’s A.I. Ambitions CGP Gray on HighwayTraffic video
Misc-lite	Keras for Kindergartners Machine Learning: Baking the Average Chocolate Cookie

The AI Course Peter Brooks, Stuyvesant High School, Spring 2019

Software:

The AI Course
Peter Brooks, Stuyvesant High School, Spring 2019