Overview: For this lab you will be evaluating an AI system found in a news
article selected by your team. You will be categorizing the AI technology
according to Performance measure, Environment, Actuators, and Sensors
(PEAS) as defined in lecture. You will need to make arguments about
whether the system is "intelligent" in your presentation.
Learning Outcomes:
- Ability to research an unfamiliar AI algorithm
- Presentation of technical content
- Categorizing the inputs, outputs, and type of AI algorithm
- Reasoning about whether the system is intelligent
Instructions
Working in groups, find a recent news article on an AI technology or
algorithm. The article should have been written within the last year.
Check off your selection with your instructor to ensure no two overlap.
Develop a presentation around the selected article. Include the following
(in whatever order you find appropriate!):
- A short summary of the system discussed in the article including the
problem it solves and the basics of how it solves it.
- Be sure to consider the agent! For example, an auto-driving car's
agent is the software controlling the car, not the car itself.
- If you cannot outline how the problem is solved, you need a
different article.
- Identify the elements of PEAS, generally in the following order:
- Environment (as experienced by the agent)
- Sensors (the inputs to the agent)
- Actuators (the outputs of the agent)
- Performance measures (quality of agent recommendations, efficiency
of computing them)
- Explain the way in which the agent shows intelligent behavior
as defined in the lecture
- Discuss any obvious threats to universality - is it clear the
training data is or is not representative of a wide range of groups?
Your presentation is expected to last about 5 minutes, so exclude
unnecessary detail. Stay focused on your key points!
Style Guide
- It is tempting to put down every word on a slide. Do not. If you need
notes, put them on a separate card.
- Write phrases, not sentences on slides. The text on the slide
augments the discussion, it's not supposed to be a reading.
- Include relevant illustrations on your slides. They anchor the text
and provide needed relief.
- End with a short review slide capturing your key points: the agent
and the two or three things you want the audience to remember about that
agent.
- Include citations, possibly as URLs. This can be a simple note on the
slide or a separate slide at the end.
- If it is a separate slide, stop at the review slide! Never show
something on the screen that you do not intend the audience to consume.
Submission
Generate a PDF of your slide deck with using the naming scheme
lab1-topic-username1-username2.pdf
where the topic is one to three descriptive words and the usernames are the
login names of the participants (adding a third if necessary). Upload this
document to Canvas. Only one member of each team needs to upload it.