AI‐Homework‐01 - TheEvergreenStateCollege/upper-division-cs-23-24 GitHub Wiki
This homework has three parts
Read pages 1 through 11 of the Deep Learning book
Read Chapter 1 of Mike Nielsen's Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Don't worry if you don't understand all the details at first. We will be using progressive reading, where we read a difficult work multiple times, each time collecting questions in English, writing experiments in Python, trying, and then repeating until we can answer our own questions.
We will be using Python and the same software setup as in Software Construction:
- a GitPod workspace
- your own laptop with VSCode or your favorite editor
Clone the class monorepo is you are working on your own laptop.
git clone [email protected]:TheEvergreenStateCollege/upper-division-cs.git
or change to your local repo if you've already cloned it and update
cd <repo_dir>
git branch # make sure you are on main
git pull
Create and change to the following directory in the class monorepo
mkdir -p ai-24sp/assignments/<your_github_username>
cd ai-24sp/assignments/<your_github_username>
Type the Python code character-for-character into this directory. According to our Git Workflow:
- Add, commit, checkout a personal branch, push, and create a Pull Request asking for feedback from one of your classmates.
To complement our technical work on understanding how to build an AI, what it can do, and details of the programming language and mathematics, we are at a liberal arts institution.
We want to connect what we're learning about artificial intelligence to better understand what it means to be human.
These include topics such as creativity, rhetoric, debate, politics, governance, ethics, sociology, and art.
Read the following article.
Write a 100 to 200 word response, describing the points of view on both sides of this legal case as you understand it. Drawing comparisons and contrasts to at least one other, similar news event.
Add this as a dev diary entry wiki page, linked to from your personal dev diary.