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AI and the Illusion of Intelligence
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 10 hours
  • Course by Copenhagen Business School
  • Offered by

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Will ArtificiaI Intelligence soon be surpassing humans? This is rapidly becoming one of the central questions of our time -- but it is the wrong question. In this course, we will provide a non-technical look at where AI has come from, and where it is going. We will see that there is no reason to expect that AI will be surpassing humans. Instead, what we are learning to create with AI is the illusion of intelligence. AI has actually been discussed for centuries, in fields like philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science. We will show that these perspectives help to shed light on current developments in AI, including impressive recent systems like GPT-3.

Modules

Some Curious Experiments

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Turing and Descartes on ChatBots

2 Videos

  • Some Curious Experiments
  • Alan Turing and the Imitation Game

1 Readings

  • Descartes and Turing

Illusions of Intelligence

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Testing for Intelligent Machines

1 Discussions

  • Fears about AI

2 Videos

  • Illusions of Intelligence
  • The Explosion of Big Data

The Chomskyan Revolution

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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  • The Chomskyan Revolution

1 Discussions

  • The discovery of islands

2 Videos

  • The Chomskyan Revolution
  • Descartes' Miracle

1 Readings

  • Phrase Structure Grammar

Doing Violence to Language

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Doing Violence to Language

1 Discussions

  • Is English Finite-State?

2 Videos

  • The Fatal Flaw of the Chomskyan Revolution
  • Doing Violence to Language: the Ngram

1 Readings

  • Language and Statistical Models

Can Computers Understand?

    • 3 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Can Computers Understand?

1 Discussions

  • Building AI according to Montague

3 Videos

  • Can Computers Understand Us?
  • Understanding and Meaning
  • Deep Learning and Neural Machine Translation

2 Readings

  • Neural Machine Translation
  • Montague Semantics

The Future of AI

    • 2 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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  • The Future of AI

1 Discussions

  • IQ Scores and the Flynn Effect

2 Videos

  • The Future
  • Moore's Law Does Not Make the Singularity Likely

2 Readings

  • The Singularity
  • Moore's Law

We are not Computers

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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  • We are not Computers

3 Videos

  • We are not Computers
  • “An Engine, the Parts of which are Men”
  • From ​Gilligan's Island t​o​ Lost

A New Kind of Being

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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  • A New Kind of Being

1 Discussions

  • Will AI Surpass Humans?

3 Videos

  • AI ​is​ the Improvement of Human Intelligence
  • Re-wiring the Human Parts
  • A New Kind of Being

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"AI and the Illusion of Intelligence" offers a non-technical exploration of AI's history and future, focusing on its philosophical and cognitive science roots. Taught by Coursera, this foundational course spans 600 minutes, highlighting how AI creates the illusion of intelligence rather than surpassing human capabilities. Ideal for those curious about AI's true nature, it is available through a Starter subscription.

Daniel Hardt
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Daniel Hardt