AI for Everyone

This discussion will address how AI is all around us and constantly changing.  There are many things that we can see like advances in self-driving cars, finding the best route to our destination, and many other things that make our lives easier.  While there are many things that we know and love, there are many elements that are not as obvious and sometimes more intrusive.  As AI becomes more pervasive, we need to be more literate in AI and this discussion will walk through the basics.

• What is AI, and how it impacts your life? - A short history of AI leading to today’s use of:
• Microsoft Copilot
• Chatbots
• Self-Driving Cars
• Healthcare Industry
• Facial Recognition
• Deep Fakes
• Data Analytics Across Industry

This discussion will focus on Ethics in ML and AI and will describe how AI within organizations is focused on driving increased profits and social control.  Additionally, there is disagreement on what is ethical AI since so much is driven by culture.  Pew research interviewed experts in the field who see this trend continuing into and beyond 2030.  There are organizations and non-profits that are working with the large AI companies like Microsoft, Google, IBM, among others to eliminate bias in AI

Student Showcase - Hazel Miller First Floor Hallway

• Computer Science course
• Web Development course
• Robot Demo
• Robotics Club 
• Rocketry Club
• Drone Club
• Undergraduate Research (UGR) Cosmology / Astrophysics - AI in Astrophysical Object Detection

This discussion will focus on ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. We will discuss how it can be used in educational programming and beyond.