Cognitive and Behavioral Foundations for Artificial Intelligence - 705.640

As a result of greater computing power and Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidlyimproving for well-defined tasks and narrow intelligence. Moreover, it has entered all industriesin a myriad of ways. But will AI ever have human-like general intelligence? What does humanlikegeneral intelligence even mean? Why should we even care? This course is designed toanswer these complex questions by giving students working knowledge of the underlyingprinciples and mechanisms of human behavior and cognition, and how they may be applied tosolving current and rising industry challenges. Key topics to be addressed will include vision,audition, language, learning, emotion and social cognition, creativity, and consciousness. Students will apply learned topics to a final group research project on the topic of their choice.