Spring 2024 Computer Science 458. 3/25/2024


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How to Engage Students - Both Inside and Outside the Classroom

Video: It's Hard to Control a Large Class

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.

Click for today's quiz.

Also, you will earn class participation points for posting to Discussions (not Ed Discussions.)

Administrivia

  • I have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays from 2-3 pm, on zoom, id 459 434 2854.

  • Complete the online student information sheet. Note: the previous form was not working. Please submit again. Thanks.

  • You may provide mid-semester feedback on canvas starting March 1st and ending March 8th. It is anonymous.

  • Yale Information Society Project Free lunch.

    Assignments

    Assignments. The paper is now available. It is due April 1st (how appropriate). You should avoid writing about things I already know. Be original. Have your own ideas. I don't want you give me back my own marbles.

    If you work on the AI and Ethics question, I suggest you read Professor Floridi's book: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (Oxford University Press, 2023), available online from the library.

    The project and hw3 are also available.

    Eren Orbey, Microsoft contact information

  • Eren.Orbey@gmail.com

    Documentation: https://aka.ms/fabric/data-science
    End-to-end tutorials: https://aka.ms/fabric/data-science/e2e
    Data Wrangler: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/data-wrangler-release/
    Contact Eren: eren.orbey@gmail.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/orbey
    

    Linked In connection

    Software game developer who tried hw2 and changed his life.

    You are all invited to connect with me in LinkedIn. Is there a benefit?

    Yale Final Final Exam

    I was Yale Class of 1974. This year is my 50th reunion. My classmates include Harvard Professor and PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr., Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the Nobel Laureate economist Paul Klugman, and the actor Harry Hamlin. My class is conducting a survey to discuss at reunion. In fifty years or so, you may encounter the following exam: You have 50 years to prepare - or maybe just your remaining time at Yale.

    CACM History of AI

    See Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Alternatively, "Do not invoke conspiracy as explanation when ignorance and incompetence will suffice, as conspiracy implies intelligence."

    It is as if medical researchers promised eternal life, but fell short, and merely cured cancer. Is that a problem? The military had much lower expectations.

    The Yale AI Project: Cognitive Modelling

    The Future of Artificial Intelligence Schank and Slade, 1991.

    See The Yale Artificial Intelligence Project: A Brief History Stephen Slade, AI Magazine, 1987.

    See Conceptual Dependency and Its Descendants Steven Lytinen, 1992.

    Goal-based Decision Making: VOTE

    See Amazon Talk.pdf Goal-based Decision-Making: An Interpersonal Model.

    See also Goal-based Decision Making. Stephen Slade. Hardcover: 304 pages. Publisher: Psychology Press (October 1, 1993). It is also available at the Yale Bookstore. Online copy through Yale library Online copy of thesis from which book was derived at Yale Library

    See Running VOTE on the zoo.

    Check out sarcastic-explanation

    Re goal hierarchy: Taylor Swift Fan Admits She Considered Skipping Kidney Transplant for Eras Tour Concert

    Rule-based Expert Systems

    GPS: The General Problem Solver. Separated knowledge from process. Means-ends analysis. See Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Chapter 4.

    Expert systems - an overview. The rules help provide an explanation.

    See ExpertSystems.html MYCIN and friends.

    http://www.norvig.com/paip/README.html

    Truth maintenance Systems

    Case-based Systems

    Case-Based Reasoning: A Research Paradigm Slade, 1990.

    CBR.html

    The Realm of Decisions

    For the next class and the coming weeks: Give an example of an explanation you thought interesting because it was especially good or bad. It can be personal or from the news. Use the Discussions section of canvas (not Ed Discussion). You earn a quiz point by posting to Discussions.
  • What is a correct decision? See A Realistic Model of Rationality. This short paper provides a high-level introduction to the topics we will discuss in this course: goals, plans, resources, relationships, goal adoption, explanations, subjective decisions, emotions, advice, and persuasion. We contrast it with the standard economic decision theory. We want to develop a theory that can be implemented in a computer program.


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