82-183 AI for Global Humanities, Spring 2024

Teaching assistants —TBA
Course linksCanvas site, Course webpage

Course objective — This innovative course will explore the multifaceted realm of AI through three themes: AI for Education, AI for Artistic Creation, and AI for Sustainable Societies and the Environment. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge, hands-on assignments, and creative projects, students will have a better understanding of the transformative potential of AI, which may reshape our perception of lifelong learning, arts, and society.

Lecture schedule for Spring 2024

Week Day, Date Lec# Topic
1 Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024 1 Overview [Slide]
2 Monday, Jan 22, 2024 2 Paper Reading: Languges aquasition [Slide]
2 Wednesday, Jan 24, 2024 3 Lecture: Introduction to LLMs: Transformers, ChatGPT [Slide]
3 Monday, Jan 29, 2024 4 Workshop: LLMs for second language study (Chinese Pinyin) [Slide]
3 Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024 5 Workshop: LLMs for second language study (Chinese Writing System) [Slide]
3 Monday, Feb 5, 2024 6 Lab 1: Introduction and hands-on tutorial [Slide]
4 Wednesday, Feb 7, 2024 7 Introduction and hands-on tutorial [Slide]
4 Monday, Feb 12, 2024 8 Invited speaker: Professor Gang Liu [Slide]
5 Wednesday, Feb 14, 2024 9 Invited speaker: TBA
5 Monday, Feb 19, 2024 10 Capstone Project 1: Avatar story competition[Slide]
6 Wednesday, Feb 21, 2024 11 Lecture: Introduction to generative AI [Slide]
6 Monday, Feb 26, 2024 12 Paper Reading: Generative AI
7 Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 13 Workshop: Generative AI for Meditation Healing Music Part 1 [Slide]
7 Monday, Mar 4, 2024 14 No class
8 Wednesday, Mar 6, 2024 No class
8 Monday, Mar 11, 2024 Workshop: Generative AI Meditation Healing Music 2 [Slide]
9 Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 15 Workshop: Generative AI for Meditation Healing Music Part 3 [Slide]
9 Monday, Mar 18, 2024 16 Lab 2: Introduction and hands-on tutorial
10 Wednesday, Mar 20, 2024 17 Invited speaker: TBA [Slide]
10 Monday, Mar 25, 2024 18 Invited speaker: TBA[Slide]
11 Wednesday, Mar 27, 2024 19 Capstone Project 2: Generative AI for Meditation Healing Music
11 Monday, Apr 1, 2024 20 Lecture: Introduce to social infrastrture: Intelligent autonomy and smart cities [Slide]
12 Wednesday, Apr 3, 2024 21 Lecture: AI for sustainable communities: AI Safety[Slide]
12 Monday, Apr 8, 2024 Lecture: AI for sustainable communities: fairness, privacy
13 Wednesday, Apr 10, 2024 22 Lab 3: coalational fairness for social good
13 Monday, Apr 15, 2024 23 Invited speaker: TBA [Slide]
14 Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024 24 Invited speaker: TBA
14 Monday, Apr 22, 2024 25 Lab 3: coalational fairness for social good [Slide]
15 Wednesday, Apr 24, 2024 26 Lab 3: coalational fairness for social good

Phone

(412)268-5669

Address

Department of Modern Languages
341 Posner Hall, 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213