Notes
- Course taught by Christian Tarsney (christian.tarsney@utoronto.ca)
- TA: Micheal Lanc (micheal.lanc@mail.utoronto.ca)
- OH: Thurs 1:15-2:15PM KW384 and by appointment
- Tutorials are primarily for discussions
- Attendance: 50%
- Participation: students offer high quality contributions
- Quizzes 15%
- Tutorial participation 10%
- After-class reflections 15%, you can choose to:
- Opinion about a topic
- Opinion about readings
- Raise a point of confusion
- Midterm exam 20%
- Final exam 40%
Concepts
Week 1
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- AI Scaling Laws
- Symbolic AI
- Eniac
- Turing Test
- GOFAI
- Perceptron Model
- ELIZA
- Deep Blue
- PGM
- AlphaGo Zero
- AlphaFold
- Transformer
- Generative Pretrained Transformer
- Narrow AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- AGI
- TAI
- Artificial Superintelligence
- AI Timeline
- AI Metrics
- Baptist
- Bootlegger
- Prometheus Myth
- Millenarianism
- Lump of Labour Fallacy
- Marginal Revenue Productivity Theory of Wages
Week 2
- Deep Learning
- CNN
- LSTM
- Activation Function
- Loss Function
- AlexNet
- Transformer
- Stochastic Gradient Descent
- AI Agent
- Multi Modal Agent
- AI Scaling Laws
Week 3
- LLM Memory Models
- Catastrophic Forgetting
- LLM Limitations
- Phenomenal Consciousness
- Intentionality
- Alan Turing
- Church Turing Hypothesis
- John Searle
- AI Semantic Gap
Week 4
- Does ChatGPT Have a Mind
- Interpretationalism
- Representationalism
- Blockhead
- Chinese Room
- Minds vs Simulated Minds
- Network Increase Effect
- Stochastic Parrot
- Occurant States
- Dispositional States
- Probe
- Semi Perpendicular Text Embeddings
- Intentionality
- Golden Gate Claude
- Othello GPT
- LLM Stochastic Parrot Argument
- LLM Memorization Argument
- LLM Sensory Grounding Argument
- Moral Patiency
- Emergent World Representation
Week 5
- Fairness
- Differential Privacy
- Pareto Curve
- Pareto Distribution
- Hume Internal Representation
- Social and Ethical Issues in AI
- AI Fairness Issues
- AI Bias
Week 6
Week 7
- Cobb Douglas Production Function
- Bowleyâs Law
- Industrial Revolution
- Agricultural Revolution
- Globalization
Week 8
- Work
- Hedonism
- Desire Fulfilment Theory
- Objective List Theory
- Ordinary Life
- Bullshit Jobs
- Post-Work
- Principle of Rationality
- Lying Flat
- Antiwork
- Windfall Clause
Week 9
- ODAI
- If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies
- AI Risks
- Rogue AI Risk Case
- Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence
- Recursive Self Improvement
- Intelligence Advantage
- Group Advantage
- Strength Advantage
Week 10
- AI Governance
- Microsoft Sydney
- AI Control
- Alibaba Rogue AI Scenario
- Superforecaster
- The Outside View
- The Inside View
- Positive Externality
- Negative Externality
- Decision Maker Cost Disparity
- Manhattan Project
- SB53
- Algorithm Registry
- Collingridge Dilemma
- Innovation Regulation Disparity
- Governance Technical Deficit
- Governance Democratic Deficit
- Revised Legislation Approach
- Sectoral Governance Approach
- Omnibus Approach
- Antitrust
Week 11
- Tort System
- Governance Uninsurable Risk
- AI Cross-Border Externalities
- AI Regulation Disagreement Problem
- AI Arms Race
- AI Lack of Bright Lines
- Unilateralists Curse
- AI Governance
- Welfare
- Moral Patiency
- Consciousness
- Sentience
- Do Plants Think
- Global Workspace Theory
- Chalmers Consciousness Criteria
- Chalmers Could a Large Language Model be Conscious
- Schwitzgebel AI and Consciousness