Diego Alvarado believes it’s vital that society understands the role artificial intelligence plays in everything we do.
“Everybody is calling it the new electricity,” said Alvarado, an instructional assistant professor at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. “It’s under the hood of almost everything. We need to be able to understand it.”
It’s not because he envisions AI replacing humans in jobs. It’s because he, like many in his field, believes that workers will have to work in unison with AI in their jobs of the future.
To help bring AI to the masses, Alvarado teaches UF’s AI Fundamentals course, where students learn the history and types of AI, and different methods of machine learning and its uses. The goal of the course is for students to become informed users of AI tools.
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“Everybody is calling it the new electricity,” said Alvarado, an instructional assistant professor at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. “It’s under the hood of almost everything. We need to be able to understand it.”
It’s not because he envisions AI replacing humans in jobs. It’s because he, like many in his field, believes that workers will have to work in unison with AI in their jobs of the future.
To help bring AI to the masses, Alvarado teaches UF’s AI Fundamentals course, where students learn the history and types of AI, and different methods of machine learning and its uses. The goal of the course is for students to become informed users of AI tools.
Continue reading: https://news.ufl.edu/2021/10/uf-professor-says-everyone-needs-to-understand-ai/
