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Introduction to AI
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Lesson Overview
Introduction
Recap
What you've learnt about how AI works
What you've learnt about using AI well
What you've learnt about the risks of AI
Activity: Matching terms and definitions
Predicting the future
The future of AI
Activity: Predicting the future
The near future
The near future
The near future: LLMs in 1 - 2 years
The near future: More open models
The near future: medical applications
The near future: Abi the robot
The near future: Embodied AI
The near future: AI in space
Humans and AI in the future
AI and the future of work
Automation
Data Collection for Automation
Augmentation and work
Humans and AI in the future
Human review and AI Execution
Activity: Augmentation
New AI Jobs
Activity: Hire Human or AI
Advice for entering the workplace
Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence
Will LLMs ever reach AGI?
Other ways to reach AGI
Genie 3: A world model
Superintelligence
Activity: Prediction postcard
Risks and preferred futures
Risks and Future of AI
Activity: Futures Thinking Discussion
Risks of Future AI
Preferred futures
Activity: Matching AI problems and solutions - Privacy and Safety
Activity: Matching AI problems and solutions - Human Impacts
Who should make the rules for powerful AI?
Activity: AI Future Tool Poster
Course Summary
End of lesson quiz
Lesson 8: The Future of AI
The near future: medical applications
Diagnosis
Record keeping
Finding new medicines
Surgical robots
Da Vinci robot by A. BourgeoisP, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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