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Homework 3 (Summer 2020)<\/h1>\n

Answer the following prompts in a maximum of 10 pages (excluding references) in JDF format<\/a>. Any content beyond 10 pages will not be considered for a grade. 10 pages is a maximum, not a target; our recommended per-section lengths intentionally add to less than 10 pages. This length is intentionally set expecting that your submission may include diagrams, drawings, pictures, etc. These should be incorporated into the body of the paper.<\/p>\n

If you would like to include additional information beyond the word limit, you may include it in clearly-marked appendices. These materials will not be used in grading your assignment, but they may help you get better feedback from your classmates and grader.<\/p>\n

Question 1: ~2 pages<\/h4>\n

In the lectures, we use two analogies to discuss analogical reasoning: the analogy between solar systems and atoms, and the analogy between storming a castle and zapping tumors.<\/p>\n

Another common example of analogical reasoning involves comparing the inner workings of brains, including their neurons and action potentials, with the inner workings of ant hills, including their tunnels and ants.<\/p>\n

Research<\/strong> this analogy a bit: Googling “human brains and ant hills” will get you enough results to go on. Then, develop<\/strong> a simple model of each of these systems. Then, discuss<\/strong> what analogically may transfer from one model to the other: at what level of abstraction can we draw an analogy between ant hills and human brains? Finally, briefly comment<\/strong> philosophically on how far that analogy can be taken: is an anthill conscious? Why or why not?<\/p>\n

Question 2: ~2 pages<\/h4>\n

Peruse the papers<\/a> from the first conference on AI, Ethics, and Society<\/a>. Select two <\/strong>papers (but do not<\/em> select Bobbie Eicher’s paper — that would be too obvious!). First, summarize<\/strong> the first paper. Note the ethical questions that the paper raises, the methodology it uses to explore them, and the conclusions at which it arrives. Then, determine<\/strong> with which of the conclusions you agree and disagree, and justify<\/strong> your decision. Finally, brainstorm<\/strong> the follow-up ethical questions that should be asked, and the methodologies that might be used to explore them.<\/p>\n

Then, repeat <\/strong>those steps for the second paper you selected.<\/p>\n

Question 3: ~2 pages<\/h4>\n

Below is a partial list of academic conferences related to artificial intelligence.\u00a0Select<\/strong> two papers (each from a different conference). Both papers should be recent (last three years or last three meetings of that conference).<\/p>\n

First, summarize<\/strong> the first paper. Note<\/strong> the major contributions of the work. Explain<\/strong> what you found interesting about the paper. Then, evaluate<\/strong> the potential weaknesses of the study: what are possible other explanations for its findings, or what other methodologies or experiments should be employed to further evaluate the work? Finally, hypothesize <\/strong>what should come next from that research.<\/p>\n

Then, repeat<\/strong> the steps above for the second paper.<\/p>\n

Here is the list of conferences we recommend choosing from. If you find another peer-reviewed AI-related conference, you may use a paper from it instead. In most cases, you can find either the actual proceedings from the conference web site, or you can find a list of paper titles. Searching those paper titles on Google Scholar<\/a> will usually take you to the full paper.<\/p>\n