This is a non-accredited, Community course offering practical job skills for which you will receive a Certificate of Completion and transcripted hours, but not transcripted credit.

Objective

Enhance the awareness and usefulness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for each student.  Develop a general communal understanding of AI for all students.  Enhance a particular area of AI in each student.  Develop a profound sense of the Ethics of AI.  Develop a joy of life-long learning of AI.

 

Methods

Students will read a communal book introducing AI.  Designated chapters are to be read prior to the Roundtable.  Students who do not read the assigned chapters will be released from the weekly session of the Roundtable.  Students will develop an area of personal interest.  Students should prepare a short presentation weekly and a long presentation monthly.  Students and faculty may develop a short quiz at any time to assist in assessing knowledge development.  All members will be subject to any quiz including faculty.  Students may develop fields of interest individually or collectively.  No expert faculty is expected for the Roundtable at this time.  Anyone may join the Roundtable at any time subject to faculty approval.

 

Faculty (Non-expert)

Organizer: L. Bryan Williams, Ph.D., Religion and Social Ethics. Computer Languages: HTML, PHP, Basic, Fortran, MySQL

Support: Joe Weiss, MS Math.  Computer Languages: Python, Fusion, BCA Information,

 

Weekly Schedule

Date & Time: Thursdays @ 6:30 to 8:00 pm.  Suite #127.  Starting July 10th.  Duration: Open

Orientation; Homework review; Open questions; Group Knowledge; Individual Mini Reports; Individual Major Report; Analysis of Ethics; Closure, Homework.

 

Communal Text

Artificial Intelligence for Dummies. 3rd Ed. ISBN: 978-1394270712. Amazon Cost: $21.56.

 

Calendar

Week 1

Acquire and read Part 1: “Introduction” pg. I – 20 and Chp. 16 “Why we still need humans.”.

Homework: Develop a better logo for our Roundtable.  The following comes from Copilot.

Copilot (Windows)

 

Prompt: develop an AI-generated logo for McCall College Artificial Intelligence Roundtable incorporating colors and logo ideas from www.mccallcollege.org .  Student encouraged to use other image generators.

The member with best logo as voted by your peers wins a prize.

Present your ideas for personal exploration of AI along with pathways of exploration.  Include research expectations.

 

Tuition

$10.00 per session paid monthly.  Cash, check or Square.