Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence in Busi­ness and So­ci­ety

Course content

This course examines new Artificial Intelligence technologies that are rapidly transforming the digital marketplace. A few short years ago Artificial Intelligence technology was primarily relegated to the realm of fantasy and science fiction – now it is driving new businesses and technologies in a wide range of areas, such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, voice-based assistants, and facial recognition. We will explore the key ideas underlying this revolution in AI technology, looking at the historical roots of AI, and the cognitive revolution in the key fields of language processing and visual processing. 
  

Students will get hands-on experience with newly developed tools for working with a variety of AI technologies. We will see how these technologies are central to the strategies of IT Giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook  – and we will look at speculation about how these developments may well accelerate in the near future. A key point is that AI technologies are becoming widely available, with public descriptions and open-source implementations. This means that they are no longer the province of large powerful companies, and we will see how AI technologies are playing an increasingly important role now for many small companies. Students will have an opportunity with hands-on exercises to learn how to access and deploy many of the leading technologies.  

This will include machine learning platforms, chatbot systems and large language models, and other current AI platforms. They will also explore fundamental issues about the ultimate potential of AI and related ethical and societal questions.