CSE 599H Winter 2023: Schedule and readings

Week
Date
Class topic
Due by class
1
Wed, Jan 4
Lecture 1:
AI & HCI: A historical perspective on why now is the right time
[slides]
Wed, Jan 11
Assignment 1 presentations
[slides]
Assignment 1 due by 1pm
3
Mon, Jan 16
Holiday:
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wed, Jan 18
Discussion 1:
The role of AI agents versus human-directed control [slides]
4
Mon, Jan 23
Lecture 3:
The challenges with evaluating models
[slides]
Tue, Jan 24
Project proposal due 11:59pm
Wed, Jan 25
Discussion 2:
The people who create, research, train, and interact with AI
[slides]
5
Mon, Jan 30
Lecture 4:
The challenges with understanding models
[slides]
Wed, Feb 1
Discussion 3:
How interactions give rise to structure in natural language and whether we can design similar emergent properties in models.
[slides]
6
Mon, Feb 6
Lecture 5:
The challenge with interacting with models
[slides]
Wed, Feb 8
Discussion 4:
Training models with human interactions
7
Mon, Feb 13
Lecture 6:
The challenge of data curation [slides]
Wed, Feb 15
Discussion 5:

Subjectivity in data collection.

Thu, Feb 16
Project milestone due 11:59pm
8
Mon, Feb 20
Holiday:
President's Day
Wed, Feb 22
Lecture 7:
Generative models and creativity
9
Mon, Feb 27
Guest lecture: Saleema Amershi
Measuring what matters for human-AI teams
Wed, Mar 1
Assignment 2 presentations

10
Mon, Mar 6
Guest lecture: Toby Jia-Jun Li
Interactive task learning via GUIs
Wed, Mar 8
Discussion 6:

Controllable image generation.

Wed, Mar 13
Final project presentations
Wed, Mar 14
Project report due 11:59pm