CS 370 - Spring 2025. 3/5/2025


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Video of the Day

Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave submitted by Teni Asade.
I think this is interesting in terms of considering not AI limitations but instead human limitations in terms of what methods we have the physical capacities to communicate with. I also saw a comment likening it to two tourists switching to their native language and thought the comparison to human behavior was interesting.

See https://gibberlink.com/ and gibberlink wiki and https://github.com/PennyroyalTea/gibberlink and What Is Gibberlink Mode, AI’s Secret Language?, Forbes, Feb 25, 2025.

I hereby solicit suggestions for the video of the day. Please email me your ideas with explanations. Selected entries will win 5 homework points. If your video is played at the beginning of class, you must also briefly explain something about the video and something about yourself - in person.

Canvas Quiz of the Day (need daily password)

Most days, there will be a simple canvas quiz related to the lecture. You need a password to activate the quiz, which I will provide in class. These quizzes will count toward your class participation grade. The quiz is available only during class. You get full credit for class participation by completing half of the quizzes.

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Lecture 15: Uncertainty + Goal-based Decision Making (and Ethics)

Announcements

  • Information Society Project Yale Law School. Weekly Events

    Administrivia

  • I have office hours Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. via Zoom, meeting ID 459 434 2854. No office hours during Spring break.

  • The TF's office hours are posted on Ed Discussion.

  • I am available for lunch on Mondays at 1 pm in Morse. No lunches during Spring break.

  • Homework assignments: [Assignments]. Projects (for 570 students) and hw5 are now available.

  • A pdf of the third edition of AIMA is available on canvas in the files folder.

  • The great ideas in AI list now appears on the course index page.

    Asides from previous lectures

  • A Realistic Model of Rationality Slade (1994). Overview of the VOTE program. (See below).

    AI in the news

  • Access to Economist (Economist.com)
  • Access to Financial Times
  • Access to Wall Street Journal from Yale.
  • Q and AI Bloomberg.
  • Access to Bloomberg.com from Yale.

    Lecture: Goal-based Decision Making

    In order to give you time to think about how to build an ethical AI program, I am interrupting our regularly scheduled lecture with a new topic: cognitive modelling.

    Lecture: Uncertainty

    Readings: chapters 12-17

  • 2019 Scassellati Slides:

  • 0303.html Quantifying Uncertainty - today's jupyter notebook. - up to joint probability
  • Bayes' Rule and the Proof of God's Existence
  • Ontological Argument for the Existence of God From St. Anselm through Kurt Gödel (using modal logic, from chapter 12).

  • Jupyter notebooks:
  • AIMA Slides:
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