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CS5063: EVALUATION OF AI SYSTEMS (2021-2022)

Last modified: 31 May 2022 13:05


Course Overview

Artificial intelligence has helped solve complex practical problems such as driving a car, translating text from/to different languages, understanding and answering questions, and playing games such as chess and Go. This course will provide students of our MSc in AI with knowledge of core evaluation concepts, approaches, tools, techniques and technologies.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session First Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Ehud B. Reiter

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either Any Postgraduate Programme or Programme Level 5
  • Either Any Postgraduate Programme or Master of Engineering in Computing Science

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course will cover concepts, methods, techniques and tools/technologies for evaluating AI systems. Students will be equipped with knowledge on statistical analysis (e.g., variance, correlations and regression) and learn to use software/tools for statistical analysis. The course will introduce criteria for the evaluation of AI systems (e.g., usability, accessibility and learnability), and the theoretical evaluation of AI systems (e.g., guarantees regarding correctness, completeness, complexity, admissibility of heuristics, and so on). The course will provide a comprehensive exposition to issues pertaining to the empirical evaluation of AI Systems, including the design of experiments (to address specific criteria/issues), human-driven experiments (including the design of forms and questionnaires, interviews, “talk-aloud” experiments, logging/filming, etc.), systems with optimal behaviours vs. (sub-optimal) human-like behaviour, crowd-sourcing of experiments (including Amazon’s “Mechanic Turk” and others), evaluation through gaming, and other related topics.


Contact Teaching Time

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

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