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Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...artificial intelligence threatening to take on roles that had previously been occupied by human workers, it is a huge philosophical question that is everywhere in our lives today. The question itself is not new, however. You will see that it has often been on the minds of those who have wondered about why humans and animals do not have the same rights, for instance, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...artificial intelligence mimics the role played by experts may be invaluable in certain circumstances, when they must leap from what programmes and algorithms predict to something previously unimagined they are less so. Intuition may allow humans to make these logical leaps. Many managers may be happy to admit – in private, at least – that they rely on their intuition...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...artificial intelligence which may mean fewer manual jobs, global connectivity through the internet and widespread access to mobile devices, international digital security issues and many more. In this course we will help you analyse how each of these ‘drivers’ contribute to thinking about an education system that is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century...Week...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...artificial intelligence is outperforming humans in terms of knowledge. And so the things that we will need to focus on are those human skills, so the things that robots can’t do, cooperation, collaboration, teamwork, empathy, critical thinking. And that means that our whole education system is going to have to shift from where it has been in the past towards helping...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...artificial intelligence that attracted over 100,000 students. This was followed in 2012 by Harvard and MIT announcing the formation of edX, a joint initiative to offer open courses. In addition, the Stanford team founded Udacity, a commercial enterprise to offer open courses, and a number of universities started offering courses through Coursera. Activity 12: Background...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...artificial intelligence and robots, internet of things, the rise of the power of countries such as China and India, international migrations, climate change, the Arab Spring, the crisis of the European Union and the rise of populism across all of the political spectrum are only a few examples of very different, but disruptive events that have happened in the last ten...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...artificial intelligence’, as saying that ‘machines as simple as thermostats can be said to have beliefs’. Searle asked McCarthy what beliefs his thermostats had, and McCarthy answered: ‘My thermostat has three beliefs. My thermostat believes – it's too hot in here, it's too cold in here and it's just right in here (Searle 1984, p.30). This probably seems...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...artificial intelligence I think is the next step. It's whether or not we lawyers will be made redundant, because there will be such sophisticated artificial intelligence that will be able to give remedies and solutions because of their enormous power to retrieve information. I think that the idea that, however, you will have courts devoid of judges and lawyers is unlikely...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs