Learn about what it is, how it works, what the future might be and why it’s important to think about that future now, and learn about the AI used to build conversations with intelligent machines. 

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To help create conversations with technologies like chatbots and digital people, we first need to understand how humans talk to each other. Learn about the psychology, and sociology, of conversation. 

Conversation design is part science, part art. Understand how to bring together the two and learn how to be a conversation designer.

An introduction to tools like Google Dialogflow that are used by conversation designers everywhere. 

Learn about some of the futures for AI and how we might change them by talking to Hailey. She will chat with you and get you thinking about ethical questions that will be important for us as we create intelligent machines.

Learn about how AI works by understanding some applications of AI in medicine, using sensor data and processing images. 

General AI (Artificial General Intelligence or AGI) is AI that tries to do any task that a human can do. Learn about some of the big ideas in AI like the Turing Test and the Chinese Room that show what AI might be capable of.

Learn how to use Google Dialogflow to create a simple TrviaBot to build your first conversational AI.

Use Dialogflow to create a more sophisticated conversational AI and use it to script a Soul Machines™ digital person.

Learn how to integrate your Dialogflow agent with a Discord bot and create interactive conversational projects. 

Choose from a variety of Learning Challenges to show how you have understood the concepts covered in the TECHXAI microcourses.

You can create an AI bot that talks about music, tries to pass the Turing Test, plays a game or asks for information and gives answers.

In this microcourse you will create your own learning rubric, show how you've met your learning challenge and then share the results with other learners in the TECHXAI EXPLORATORY. 

You'll use the game platform Discord to share your work with other learners. Here you can showcase your AI skills and learn from others and what they have built. You can show off your chatbot building skills, use your digital person to tell us stories about an ethical issue, discuss an AI concept or explore a new idea or application for AI, chatbots or digital people.