Artificial Intelligence (CO3519) Tutorial 3.1: Calendar Week 47
3.1 Use case for an AI demonstrator implementation
Context
The graded coursework assessment, which contributes 60% to the overall grade of the module,
will demonstrate the successful attainment of the module's learning outcomes,
in particular, the competency to implement artificial intelligence algorithms.
The precise specification of the assessment task will be released as soon as possible;
according to the present plan, it will involve the development of a demonstrator implementation,
documenting the success at reaching the learning outcomes.
Most work to be done in the tutorial sessions from now onward until the
end of March 2022 will revolve around this major task.
Note that the tutorial worksheets do not contribute to the grade as such; they are
intended to provide guidance and support structured discussions on
potential aspects of the work, in a way that also relates to the content
of the lectures.
Use case
Before beginning serious work on the demonstrator, it will be advisable to
identify a suitable topic based on a potential use case. Recommendations
for such a use case include:
- It involves a decision making or decision support scenario,
understood in the broadest sense; optimization, design of an intelligent agent,
user assistance, or strategies for non-player characters in games would
all qualify if they are formulated appropriately.
- It involves modelling and/or learning from data; e.g.,
the design of a realistic objective function in optimization,
or analysing the percepts in the case of an intelligent agent.
- It is of interest to you. Ideally, it is related to other work that you
have been doing or plan to do outside the
context of this module, for example, in one of the other modules,
as a third-year project, or possibly plans for future research
and development, within an academic context or outside it.
- It is of interest to others. There should be an identifiable community or
group of potential end users. This does not mean that you will
be required within the present module to actually lead your demonstrator
to the level where that community can already be addressed.
- You will need data. Either you select a use
case for which the actual data are accessible to the public,
e.g., in domains such as finance, public administration,
games and sports, or the COVID pandemic, among many others;
or you have have sufficient dedicated domain knowledge to generate
realistic data for development and demonstration purposes.
The task now is to select and briefly describe such a potential use case.
This does not commit you to retaining this use case as
a scenario for your graded coursework. The work on the demonstrator
will only be graded after the submission of the demonstrator as a whole.
Submission deadline: 11th December 2021; discussion planned for
21st January 2022. Group work by up to four people is welcome.