CS 485 – Week 4: Lecture Notes

Detailed Contents
  1. Case studies involving use of ethics codes & legal issues
    • Class discussion: Risky Systems (10.4.4)
    • Class discussion: Going Public (10.4.5)
  2. Formal presentation and debating skills
    • Speaking notes:
      • Know the atmosphere
      • Know the audience
      • Relax
      • Visualize yourself speaking
      • Don't apologize for being nervous
      • Concentrate on your message
      • Gain experience
      • Practice your presentation
    • Answer these questions for effective debate:
      • Topic (affirmative or negative)
      • Issue and justification
      • Definitions and justifications
      • Case line
      • Material (arguments)
      • Rebuttal arguments
      • Allocation
      • Anticipated opposition arguments
  3. Future Issues: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    • Questions for class:
      • define AI (no correct answer)
        • John McCarthy – “It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.”
      • possible applications for AI (current & future)
        • interactive entertainment
        • speech recognition
        • understanding natural language
        • advance computer vision (beyond 2D monitors)
      • Current developments in AI? (Variable) (less than 10 minutes)
    • Turing Test (1950)
      • Dr. James Hendler (DARPA) – “Imagine you have two rooms. You're in one. In the other is a person pretending to be someone else, or it may be a computer pretending to be a person. You're allowed to type back and forth. If you cannot eventually tell the human from the computer, it passes the test.”
      • Why would we want a computer that we can’t tell apart from humans? Why not use a human?
    • IBM’s Deep Blue
      • it’s development is more than just chess
      • technology can help tackle “real world” problems
    • Ethical implications
      • Are there any kinds of robots that shouldn't be created? Or that you wouldn't want to see created? Why?
      • Can a computer be conscious?
      • Woody Allen – “My father lost his job because his plant bought a machine that is capable of doing everything my father could do…it wasn’t so bad, until my mother went out and bought one as well.”
    • Why does Kidder title his book “The Soul of a New Machine”? How does Kidder’s discussion of the game ‘Adventure’ relate to this topic?
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