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Session 1: Introduction to course idea

Materials

Video and audio samples for the course

https://hkchengrex.com/MMAudio/

Spotify Advertising generator: Spotify Creative Lab

Sources for shown image and video samples

Results

Task 1: Mindmap of course topics

See KIM-01-Mindmap.pdf for the task description. You can find the results of the students below.

Alyssa Athanasios Leon Chantal Isabell Flavio

General notes from UH

  • What is knowledge ("Wissen")?
    • Difference between data, information, and knowledge
    • Knowledge representation
    • Knowledge Graphs
  • If the task is to create a mindmap, then a mindmap should be created. Not a list.

Things students know already

  • Huge amounts of data are involved
  • AI is often hidden
  • AI can be used to generate manuals, summaries and images
  • AI helps to structure data
  • Known tools: ChatGPT by OpenAI, Claude by Anthropic, Gemini and Animation Creator (veo3) by Google, Meta AI by Meta, Firefly and Express by Adobe
  • AI content become more and more widespread, even if wrong
  • AI can be used to create images, videos, audio
  • LLMs are used for text generation
  • Water and energy consumption is a problem
  • AI has social, political and economic implications
  • AI is used to generate advertisements
  • AI generates new and original (?) content
  • AI learns continously
  • AI content becomes more and more indistinguishable from human content
  • There is a lot of prompt-driven content
  • AI is controversial

Things students want to learn

TECHNICAL BASICS

  • How does it work? How does it learn?
  • How does it create content?
  • Which kind of models exist?
  • Which sources of data are used for training?
  • How is data integrated?
  • Understand the algorithms behind it. What about search algorithms?
  • How do Chatbots work?

HISTORY AND FUTURE

  • What are the academic and scientific challenges?
  • History of AI
  • What will be the future of AI? Will it remain?
  • In which areas will AI be used?
  • Will AI become more human-like? Will it be conscious? What about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)?
  • Can AI replace human creativity completely?

USAGE

  • What can be done with it?
  • Which prompt engineering techniques exist? And which work?
  • How is AI used in CGI?
  • Usage in medicine
  • Learning and education with AI
  • How can I detect AI-generated content so that I don't get fooled?
  • How can I detect if AI is involved? Where is AI used without me noticing?
  • How can I use AI tools in my daily life without feeling guilty?
  • Is it easier to let AI generate content than to create it myself?
  • How can I decide whether to use AI or not? Are there any indicators?
  • Is it really easy to use AI tools? Or are there AI tools that are still difficult to use?

IMPACT

  • How does it damage the environment?
  • Does it harm humans?
  • Which jobs have already been replaced?
  • Economic aspects
  • Ecological aspects
  • Social aspects
  • Ethical aspects (not ethnical, right?)

Things students want to create

  • Text generation
  • Text improvement
  • Text structuring (lists) or support for structuring (processes)
  • Idea generation
  • Code generation, support and processing
  • Image generation
  • Understanding and using AI tools in general
  • Video generation including sound
  • Support for video editing (?)
  • Website generation
  • Learning support