Syllabus

Course schedule

• 9/7  What will I learn in this course?

• 9/14  What is Turing Test and machine learning? How did human invent AI?    Pairs/groups finalized/

• 9/21 What is computational thinking?

• 9/28 Teacher’s Day-No class

• 10/5 How to break a task into smaller steps (for AI to work on)?   AI coach Project starts

• 10/12 What is corpus & large language models? How do LLMs work?

• 10/19 What can't AI do (yet)? What tasks resist automation, and why?

• 10/26 National Holiday-No class

• 11/2 Midterm: How much do I know about AI?   1st period quiz practice; 2nd period exam

• 11/9 What are AI risks and ethics?   AI coach evaluation

• 11/16 How to protect my privacy when using AI?  Game Contest starts

• 11/23 How to use fewer tokens to get the same results? What are AI’s economic & social impacts?

• 11/30 How to detect fake and fraud?  Japanese learning game-Individual due

• 12/7 Course review

• 12/14 AI Japanese Learning Game Contest  AI coach Project sharing

• 12/21 Final exam

• 12/28 Midterm/Final retake

• 1/4  AI coach progress report due