Summary:

Building on Unit 10, this week we’re going to dive into intelligence! The fields we’ll be discussing apply the knowledge we have about our human brains and how they work to understanding the cognition that happens in them and then how we apply that to building intelligent machines.

We’ll be thinking about how to define intelligence. Do people agree on one definition? If they can’t, how will we know when we’ve created it in machines?

Learning Objectives:

  • understand how knowledge about our brains gets applied when we study intelligence in humans and non-humans
  • recognize the proxies and assumptions associated with measuring intelligence

Unit 11, Class 20 [day/date] Required Readings/Videos:

  1. Reading: Chapter 7: Thinking and Intelligence from OpenStax, Psychology. OpenStax. 14 February 2014. Make sure you read 7.1-7.4 for Monday and 7.5-7.6 for Wednesday
  2. SF video: Artificial Intelligence.

Unit 11, Class 20 OPTIONAL Reading

Yong. 2019. Apes Might Know That You Don’t Know What They Know. The Atlantic. 

Unit 11, Class 20 [day/date]Self-Assessment

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Unit 11, Class 21 [day/date] Required Readings/Videos:

  1. Reading: Criscuolo et al. 2019 On the association between musical training, intelligence, and executive functions in adulthood. Frontiers in Psychology.

Unit 11, Class 21 [day/date] OPTIONAL Reading:

Michalowski. 2023. What powerful new bots like ChatGPT tell us about intelligence and the human brain. BrainScan from MIT’s McGovern Institute

Kalluri. 2020. Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power. Nature. 583, 169.

Unit 11, Class 21 [dau/date] Self-Assessment

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Unit 11 Major Assignments Due

Poster Figures due [time/date]