Full course description
"Living and Working with AI: How Computers Understand Language" participants will be able to provide students with opportunities to explore how intelligent agents process speech, assign meaning to what we say, and interact in natural ways. Participants will learn about the ways that these technologies impact our daily lives. The learner will be able to identify the Five Big Ideas of AI. These ideas include perception, representation & reasoning, learning, and natural interaction.
Think back to the last time you used your voice to control a computer, tablet, or phone. Whether asking Alexa to turn on a light for us, asking Siri to send a text message for us, or even talking to a customer service line, we interact with these devices on a daily basis in ways that feel almost natural. This has always been a goal for technology, and modern advances in computing power have allowed us to make these devices fit in the palm of our hands.
But how does it work? How do intelligent assistants take the sounds that we make and turn them into meaningful information that they can act on? These questions are part of Big Idea #4, Natural Interaction. We want AI and intelligent assistants to have fluent conversational-style interactions with us and not be limited to simple query-response exchanges. In this section of the course, you will learn how computers and intelligent agents process speech, make meaning from sentences, and use this information to interact with us in natural ways.