Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract/Objectives

This course introduces the emerging and popular artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and applications of recent years, enabling students to understand the underlying hardware and software technologies of AI and how it is applied across various industries and fields. The course covers the advantages, disadvantages, limitations, regulations and ethics, and risks of AI. It aims to make AI easily understandable, usable, and applicable, and to empower students to articulate the functions and limitations of AI through their own critical thinking, demonstrating appropriate communication skills. This will allow AI technology to contribute to their learning, growth, and future work capabilities and achievements.

Results/Contributions

This course is an applied science within the natural sciences category and is also a diverse elective course within the Program of Information and Communication Media. Professor delivers lectures and, using textbooks and online demonstrations of AI technologies and applications, explains various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and applications.

 

The course invites several experienced professors from academia and industry to introduce the development and application of AI in different professional fields such as law, finance, industry, and business. Students frequently engage in Q&A discussions with instructors and speakers, sharing their thoughts on AI through interactive, conversational learning.

 

This course cultivates students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills during their university studies, benefiting their future academic and career development. Students share their understanding, experiences, thoughts, and insights on AI with instructors and other students through oral presentations or AI demonstrations, fostering interdisciplinary and inter-specialty exchange. At the end of the semester, students submit a learning report, analyzing, presenting, and discussing their findings, or explaining new applications of AI.

 

In the Spring semester of 2025, three students' works were selected as outstanding general education projects: "Intelligent Disaster Relief Vehicle", "Using AI for Stock Market Backtesting", and "Using Colab to Write a Simple Legal AI Agent (RAG + Reflection + COT)". In the Fall semester of 2025, some students' works were also included in the list of outstanding general education projects and are awaiting selection. Their works provide students with opportunities to accumulate further learning and exchange from these achievements.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Machine Learning, Generative AI (GenAI), Information Technology, Information and Communication Media

Contact Information

翁唯城
wong.weicheng@mx.nthu.edu.tw