AI and the Illusion of Intelligence

Week 1: Illusions of Intelligence

• Explore curious experiments and the implications of Alan Turing's Imitation Game.
• Discover the explosion of big data and its impact on AI's development.
• Gain insights into the fears surrounding AI and its potential limitations.

Week 2: The Technology of Language

• Understand the Chomskyan Revolution and its impact on language technology.
• Explore the limitations and potential flaws of the Chomskyan Revolution.
• Investigate the role of statistical models in language technology.

Week 3: Will Computers Ever Understand Us?

• Reflect on the question of whether computers can truly understand humans and their language.
• Explore deep learning and neural machine translation in the context of AI's potential to understand humans.
• Consider the implications of AI's future development and its relationship with Moore's Law.

Week 4: AI -- a New Kind of Being?

• Challenge the notion of AI as a new form of intelligence and consider the implications of re-wiring human parts.
• Reflect on the future of AI and its potential impact on human intelligence.