An academic club working to educate students on the AI revolution was recently formed by freshman Adam Zheng. The club participated in mini club day and succeeded in encouraging 15 people to join. With the 20 priorly signed up, Zheng has quickly created a popular environment. “I feel like I can definitely learn something from the club, and also a bunch of my friends are in the club and it’s generally a very nice environment,” said freshman club member Eric Mu.
The first meeting took place on February 8th with an exciting turn out. It was introductory and Zheng along with club secretary freshman Owen Cheng, taught some basics of AI technology. In future meetings Zheng hopes to address, “what’s going on behind the scenes, exploring ideas and the ethics behind it,” he said. In the second meeting they will, “be building an AI model on the platform. It will detect emotions based on data and we’re going to use a training database…basically you take some pictures of you being sad and happy, then train your model based on that,” he said..
AI is something Zheng and Cheng are passionate about not only as revolutionary technology but also in what place it has in our world. “This technology is increasing rapidly and many don’t take the time to learn more about it. If you don’t learn how to use it you could fall behind and might not be able to unleash its potential,” said Zheng. Some members are interested in learning about how AI could be used in the future in order to help people.
AI is prevalent in multiple facets of student life. Some teachers encourage students to utilize ChatGPT to generate practice test questions and study. As Zheng said, AI’s potential matters and it is something that will only continue to get more complicated and advanced. “I like the fact that there’s so many applications for AI, and that it’s touted as the future of computer science,” said Mu. This club is also a resource for students to better comprehend the technological reality they are living in. It is a way to prevent us from becoming terribly overwhelmed by the mysteries of AI inventions.
Meeting a few times a month, Zheng will educate in tactile ways to help make what he views as a necessary education, accessible, and interesting for many.
