CSSE 413: Schedule

This schedule is subject to change.

Assignments are listed by their due date.

WeekDatesDay and TopicsAssignments
1 Mar. 4-8 Day 1: Introduction to course
Intelligence: What is it, where do we find it?
Day 2: Constraint Satisfaction
Backtracking search
Day 3: Intelligence: How do we test it?
AI landscape, future directions of AI
Mar.7, BC:
Day 4: Introduction to Neural Networks, Perceptron Mar.8, BC: Constraint Satisfaction/
Sudoku
assignment
2 Mar. 11-15 Day 5: Feed-forward networks, backpropagation
Day 6: Deep blue discussion, brute force solutions, pattern matching in chess, Monte Carlo Tree search Mar.12, BC: Deep Blue summary
Day 7: Grabbing the Tiger by the Tail
Day 8: Discussion of paper, Introduction to NN assignment, Basic properties of data sets, OOD errors Mar.14: Great A.I. Awakening summary
3 Mar. 18-22 Day 9: Ethics: Bias, Copyright issues, Hallucinations
Day 10: CNNs BC: Cutting-edge work proposal
Day 11: CNNs continued
Day 12: AlphaGoZero discussion, Pattern recognition BC: AlphaGoZero summary
4 Mar. 25-29 Day 13: NLP, early work in NLP
Day 14: Knowledge representation: Embeddings, Paraphrases, Ontologies, Common sense 23:59: NN assignment
Day 15: Hopfield Networks, RNNs
Day 16: LSTMs, Discussion of Newport paper BC: Newport summary
5 Apr. 1-5 Day 17: Reasoning in ChatGPT
Day18: Reasoning in ChatGPT
Day 19: Transformers, Pattern matching, Discussion of Attention paper BC: Attention summary
Day 20: TBA
6 Apr. 15-19 Day 21: TBA 23:59: CNN training assignment
Day 22: Research on the next break-through.
Day 23: Research on the next break-through.
Day 24: Cutting-edge work presentations
7 Apr. 22-26 Day 25: Discussion of Dreyfus paper, Pattern recognition BC: Dreyfus summary
Day 26: TBA
Day 27: TBA
Day 28: Cutting-edge work presentations
8 Apr. 29-
May 3
Day 29: Reports of assessment of ChatGPT Assessment of ChatGPT
Day 30: Reports of assessment of ChatGPT
Day 31: Impact of AI presentations
Day 32: Cutting-edge work presentations
9 May 6-10 Day 33: TBA
Day 34: TBA
Day 35: Impact of AI presentations
Day 36: Cutting-edge work presentations
10 May 13-17 Day 37: TBA
Day 38: Impact of AI presentations
Day 39: Training an LLM presentations BC: Training an LLM reports
Day 40: Training an LLM presentations