This AI course aims to firstly provide an overall view of what is AI, its developments over the past decades, its current trends, and a look at potential future directions.  It will cover impact of AI to society and business.  Through case studies, students gain a better insight on different AI technologies and how they can be used to address a wide range of social and business needs.  The course will broaden students' understanding of current state-of-the-art in AI and future trends, as well as how various needs of different industries can be addressed through innovative use of AI.  The second objective of this course is to help students become creative innovators in applying "AI first" concepts to solving real-world problems through project-based work.  This course will be useful for students from any discipline and will give insights to the value of AI across industries from a global point of view as well as issues related to their ethical use.  To make this course as widely accessible to as many people as possible from any background, no programming will be required and no prior programming skills are assumed.

For a student to pass the course, at least 30% of the maximum mark for the examination must be obtained.

For the Team Project: Team project assigned to student to explore different AI related topics. The list of possible topics are provided, including programming-oriented topics, application-oriented topics and the investigate of AI's impact on society. Students are encouraged to think AI techniques critically and write a report about their unique experience about the AI technique studied.

For the Examination: the alignment with the CILOs will be as follows:

The final examination questions will cover each of the CILOs roughly similarly, i.e. one-third each:

CILO#1 - Explain examples of how AI benefits everyday life through innovative solutions.

There will be questions to assess students' knowledge of what AI can do and how it can be used to solve daily problems and needs as well as be able to identify specific benefits offered by AI.

CILO#2 - Explore and analyze the use and impact of AI in different industries around the world.

There will be questions to assess students' knowledge of various real-world applications of AI, what problems it solve, benefits it brings as well as potential challenges and issues.

CILO#3 - Understand current trends in AI, and design and prototype an application of AI to solve current business, industry, or social need.

There will be questions to assess students' knowledge of current new trends and directions in AI, as well as questions related to their projects and the role and importance AI plays.