Cai Yanlong: The most difficult thing for artificial intelligence is to ask good questions, and the decision-making ability of experts is more important Professor Cai Yanlong, who wears glasses and has smiling eyes, can always see the cute character picture cards he draws in his course presentations, so he is nicknamed "the cartoonist who was delayed by the professor" by the students. Cai Yanlong said that he would like to put these cute and humorous patterns on the briefing, in fact, he wanted to use a relatively easy and easy-to-understand method to lower the threshold for learning artificial intelligence. In order to allow more students to understand the application and concept of artificial intelligence, Cai Yanlong and Chen Yixiu, an associate professor of the School of Communication, jointly opened a course on "Design Thinking and Artificial Intelligence". This class does not restrict students with an engineering background to take electives. Instead, students from various departments are encouraged to participate and learn how to use artificial intelligence to solve practical problems through this class. Cai Yanlong mentioned that the reason why he wants to offer this course is that many departments or industries will introduce AI applications, and many students with non-programming backgrounds will also participate in AI competitions outside the school. The grades are good, but the understanding of artificial intelligence is not comprehensive. That's why he wants to offer such a course that combines design thinking and artificial intelligence, so that students can start from problem awareness, gradually understand the logic of programming language, and the feasibility and limitations of artificial intelligence in the process, and gradually learn to ask the right questions and find the most appropriate solution. Cai Yanlong said that after graduating from National Chengchi University, even if they are not engineers, they may be project managers or middle-level executives. If they can understand the logic of programming in this class, it will be of great help to communicate with engineers in the future. The boss is the key person who asks questions and must establish a common communication language "Artificial intelligence is like a function," Cai Yanlong explained. A function is a correspondence between two sets X and Y, which means that all questions (X) can correspond to a unique answer (Y). Therefore, when we want to use AI to solve problems, we must think clearly about the data to be input into the computer and what the output answer is. He said that the most important thing is to ask questions, that is, questions that must be transformed into functional forms, rather than "how to use AI to improve performance?" With such divergent questions, engineers cannot judge what model to build from the questions. We can ask questions in different ways or in different ways, but to "ask well" you need to have professional domain knowledge, and the most suitable person to ask questions is the boss, provided that the boss first has the basic knowledge of artificial intelligence . In the process of asking questions, you may also encounter some challenges, such as: questions that cannot be asked or data that cannot be collected, resulting in the inability to ask questions directly and need to insinuate. Cai Yanlong said with a smile, so although the boss does not need to be able to write programs, he needs to understand the concept of AI in order to understand how engineers solve problems.
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