Educational Videos:
Artificial Intelligence
The Speaker is Kentaro Toyama, a computer scientist. Toyama is on the opposing side and gives reasons why technology is not the answer to poverty.
This article accompanied by a short video shows how China is using and developing UAV technology to deliver goods to rural and difficult to reach places in their country. The UAV device is delivering food and other goods. The goal is to help alleviate some of the poverty in their country by using this technology. The program also aims to create a network of systems to reach more people in need. The UAV technology is projected to cost less than and be safer than human deliveries. China is also writing a new set of rules and regulations to keep their skies safe as this method of delivery is used more often.
Audio with transcript of Elizabeth Mason, Founding director of the Stanford Poverty and Technology Lab in Palo Alto. She speaks on using technology to redefine education and the way that students are being taught. Mason believes that we have all the tools in front of us to end poverty but we are not using them correctly. She discusses technology being used for trivial purposes such as finding food or hairdressers instead of bigger issues such as education or job matching. Mason goes on to discuss using data to evaluate the programs. She also analyzes the approach of sharing of knowledge from those who have escaped poverty to assist others through technology resources. She aims to get people out of poverty by using this technology to educate youth and assist in job training.
Short video examining positive and negative aspects of AI. Can initiate great discussions as it gives examples and concepts, but also allows the viewers the space to create their own thoughts on the topic.
These videos bring to light the fears of many in a growing automated world: How will developing countries be able to keep up? Robots are taking away jobs that humans once had in developed countries on a small scale. The question is what this will mean in the future. Policies will need to be updated and created.
Video explains how technology can bring water, safe cooking, energy, and more to the billions of people living in poverty. The aim is to use technology that already exists and make it accessible to poor countries and areas of the world to give everyone a higher quality of life. Shows Micro-Hydro Power as a way to convert water energy into electricity without the use of a dam or storage facility. Shows the benefits of fireless cookers to safely cook food and keep prolonged heat.
This video explains the idea of the ‘singularity,’ which in this context is when artificial intelligence is able to create other self-learning programs and robots. It takes this sci-fi concept and explains how it could potentially become a reality.
This video is by now presidential candidate Andrew Yang, talking about a more optimistic view of A.I. He explains its potential to take away the need for low-skilled manual work, freeing humanity to pursue intellectual and innovative pursuits.
This video provides a good base level introduction to the different types of AI. Including a brief history, this video is heavily based on terminology, and so would be useful for introducing vocabulary at the beginning of a course.
This video defines artificial intelligence, with discussion of the person who coined the phrase artificial intelligence. Additionally, it explores different ways that artificial intelligence has been used, with explanation for what each use means for the overall field.
In less than 2 minutes, this video creates a very quick and easy intro to the idea of AI. It also includes deep learning, as well as examples of the applications of it in terms of vehicles, hospital technology and more.
While reiterating many basic ideas about AI, this video provides an optimistic view of the future of humanity’s integration with these technologies. Drawing comparisons to the industrial revolution, the video predicts that humanity will adapt to the changes in how the world works.
This video has two men discussing their different views on the future of AI. One is highly optimistic, while the other is more cautious. The optimist says that AI will greatly enhance our lives, while the pessimist is more concerned about potential conflicts with greatly enhanced intelligence created by humanity.
This video describes the current moment in the development of AI. Essentially, the video describes how where the technology is now is a crossroads, and how we solve certain problems now will forever set the course for the future.
This video shows several leaders in technology as they answer the question, “are you excited about AI?” It offers good insight into the opinions of several of the people on the cutting edge of this emerging technology.
This video seeks to lessen some of the fears about the future of AI, therefore increasing excitement about it. In essence, the speaker asserts that because the technology is years away from being sentient, there is plenty of time to work out ways to implement this new technology safely.
This video takes the time to explain the issues that might arise if humans create AI that surpasses human intelligence. Namely, that if it becomes advanced enough, humanity might become almost anti-like in comparison, so that future AI may disregard us, and if we are in its way, eliminate us.
This video discusses how we already use AI in our everyday lives, with several examples of machine learning in things like google and our phones. Taking a look at the immediate future, it does not get into the theoretical future of AI but discusses the ways it is already impacting our lives.
This is a basic, visually based video that describes some basic definitions about different aspects of AI.