Make your own copy of this online Word doc and add two quoted definitions for each of the twenty terms.
Each definition should be quoted text from a reputable source and must include a MLA-style citation. Here are some ideas about places to search in to find definitions:
Bonus points opportunity: For each additional relevant term you add beyond the required 20, you will get 2 points
AI winter
Carbon footprint
Copyright
Data center
Deep learning
Disinformation
Fair use
Prompt engineering
Reinforcement learning
Statistical AI
Supervised learning
Symbolic AI
Synthetic media
Techno-determinism
Turing test
Web scraping
Research Consultation
5% of your grade
Must be completed by May 1 (no credit for appointments held later)
Meetings will last 20-30 minutes and can be in person or on Zoom
Focus will be on the profession or career that you'll be studying for the presentation project
Presentation
Due May 13 (last class session)
25% of your grade.
Slide presentation (may be pre-recorded or done live in class) of no more than 6 minutes in length
Your presentation will explain how various kinds of AI are impacting a specific profession that is clearly identified. If your chosen profession is one that is common in a number of different industries or sectors, you're advised to talk about that profession in a more narrowly defined way. For example, if you're interested in teachers, it's advisable to limit your presentation to teachers in just one specific level of the education system (e.g., pre-K, K-12, higher education).
You should provide your audience with some introductory info (definition of the profession, statistics on numbers of people in that profession, etc.)
Your focus is on how AI is currently impacting a profession. You're not making predictions about the future but documenting what's happening now or recently.
Your analysis of the impacts should consider both of these:
uses of AI by members of that profession
uses of AI by other parts of a company, an industry, a related industry, or sector of society that are affecting the work of those in your chosen profession
Remember, AI does not just mean "generative AI" but can also include all the various kinds of technology under the "AI" umbrella (e.g., robotics, self-driving vehicles, chatbots, etc.)
Your must address at least three of the main topic areas we covered in the class:
information quality issues (e.g., info ecosystem, algorithmic bias, model collapse, misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, hallucinations)
economics, business, and labor issues (e.g., job loss, viability of AI as a business, costs, corporate capture of AI research, global economic competition, outsourcing of harmful tasks for training and fine-tuning models)
environmental issues (carbon footprint, ethics of energy use)
In your presentation, you must demonstrate your use of sources in your research by making reference to most of them as you speak.
Your final slide must include a list of sources that you used for your research (feel free to put this list on several slides if putting it all on one slide squishes to text too much). You must use at least ten reputable, reliable, and highly relevant sources (these will be reviewed as part of your grade).
You must share your presentation file by the start of class on May 13 (slide deck or video recording)
