CDI1: Week 4

Week 3 Lecture Slides here

Week 3 Miro board here

Pre-work Materials 

Deadline 12:00, Friday, 10th October

Pre-work materials for next week: 

i. Choose ONE episode from “The Artificial Human” podcast to listen to. The following are most relevant to next week's lecture, however you are welcome to choose a different one if of interest:​

    How green is my AI? ​

    Could AI win an Oscar? ​

    Can we stop saying AI can think?​

The episodes are available on most podcast streaming services (e.g., Spotify) as well as here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wjf8/episodes/player    ​

ii. Optional reading (Not required but an influential paper worth knowing):​
    Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. ​
    On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. In Proceedings ​
    of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '21). ​
    Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 610–623. ​
    https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922  ​
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iii. Optional follow-on from this week: ​

Try out the Night Walk for Edinburgh, and reflect on your experience – was it enjoyable? What parts inspired you? What might have been improved? ​
Download and instructions here: https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/night-walk-for-edinburgh-2/  

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Link for this week's reflection: Click here