B13. The Past, Present and Enigmatic Future of AI

In November 2022, ChatGPT upended the ways that we thought about education, work, politics, and, oh, so much more. The future arrived, and we weren't ready. Dr. Frankenstein's monster could write college papers, create illustrations and , evntually, videos, and soon converse with us wih an unsettling familirilty.

This course will take us back and push us forward. With a particular focus on the lives of seniors, we'll discover how to use these new AI products to help us in our own creative endeavors and see how current AI products are used in politics, education, business and medicine.

Throughout the course, we'll discuss our hopes and fears for ourselves and for the generations to come.