Study Guide and Terms

Slides

Here are some basic slides your instructor may build off of for lectures. If you are in a lectured section of the course, your instructor will probably customize these slides.

Study Guide

At the end of this chapter (or by the end of the course), you should know the following:

  • Concepts: be able to explain these topics or provide answers to each of these questions.

    • What is the origin and evolution of artificial intelligence?

    • What applications and systems leverage AI?

    • What considerations do we need to make regarding privacy, security, and ethics when using AI personally and for business?

    • Which models are best suited to different categories of tasks?

  • Key terms: understand the meaning of each of these terms.

    • Artificial intelligence (AI)

    • Machine learning (ML)

    • Large language models (LLM)

    • False positives (AI hallucinations)

    • Prompt Engineering

  • Skills: be able to do the following.

    • Craft precise prompts (single, iterative, or serial/chain) to obtain usable (valid and relevant) output.

    • Leverage AI to complete assignments in this course.

    • Leverage AI to learn the concepts and skills taught in this course.

    • Effectively collaborate with AI as you build technical solutions to business problems (a.k.a. "vibe coding").

    • Use AI to go far beyond (laterally--to other topics, and vertically--deeper in course topics) what we teach you in this class.