Live Class Sessions
Students in the class were required to tune in live to the Thursday class sessions. In each session, there were spots for about 20 students to be in the studio with Prof. Stone. The rest watched on a live stream. Each student was required to attend class in teh studio once during the semester, with extra credit given for coming a second time. The class sessions were used to address issues that were raised by several students in their comments on the readings and/or written reflections that were due on Tuesday.
For the material that students covered prior to class, see the "Pre-Class Modules" tab.
The class sessions included one or two live polls, as well as three discussion prompts. For the discussions, the students were divided into chat rooms of about 10 students each, with one of the members being present live in the studio. Then the students in the studio engaged in a live discussion with the Professor, representing both their own opinions and those of the people in their chat rooms. Students were graded based on their participation in the chats.
Since students' full names were used in the class sessions, we cannot share the full video recordings. But a sample edited recording is provided below under "Week 2".
Date | Topic |
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Week 1 |
Introductionslides presented in class |
Week 2 |
AI and Societyslides presented in classedited lecture recording |
Week 3 |
Planning and Searchslides presented in class |
Week 4 |
Intelligent Roboticsslides presented in class |
Week 5 |
Probabilistic Modelingslides presented in class |
Week 6 |
Computer Visionslides presented in class |
Week 7 |
Machine Learning Fundamentalsslides presented in class |
Week 8 |
Machine Learning Paradigmsslides presented in class |
Week 9 |
Natural Language Processing (Large Language Models)slides presented in class |
Week 10 |
Bias and Fairness in AI Modelsslides presented in class |
Week 11 |
AI and Mis/disinformationslides presented in class |
Week 12 |
Workplace Impacts, Economics, and Policyslides presented in class |
Week 13 |
AI Alignment and Existential Threatsslides presented in class |
Week 14 |
Computational Foundations and Future Directionsslides presented in class |