Hi all! Looks like UMB is closing school tomorrow, February 6, so our class won’t meet on campus. In consideration of the timeline for the entire semester, I have mapped out the best way forward. Here’s the plan:

For the lecture content: I will hold a Zoom lecture for the Day 4 slides at 11:00am on Thursday, February 6, and the meeting will be recorded. The Zoom meeting is only accessible through Canvas and you should be signed in to join. Students from any section may attend this lecture. Real-time attendance is not mandatory for any student, but all students should review the recording before coming to class on Day 5. Terms from this lecture will be tested on Quiz B on Day 5 (Tuesday, February 11). See the screenshots below if you need help navigating to the meeting. I’ll post the recording on… you guessed it! The Recordings page as soon as it is available. Update 1:15pm – it’s available! Direct link here.

For the Discussion Memo (DM) assignment: Sadly we will miss the in-class component of this one, and submit it on Canvas instead. You can fill out your discussion memo by hand or type your answers into the PDF. Of course, you will leave the box about your group members blank this time. The DM is based on the article OpenAI Continues Its Mission of ‘Ethical’ AI by Partnering With a Killer Robot Company by Lucas Ropek for Gizmodo. By this point, everyone in class should have read it on their own in preparation for tomorrow’s class, but it’s on the topics page on our course website if you are behind and need to access it now. The due date remains Thursday, February 6 at 6pm, but I am instituting a 24 hour grace period so everyone has ample time to upload and submit their document. See the screenshots below if you need help navigating to the submission portal.

Maybe see you tomorrow if you choose to attend the Zoom lecture for Day 4 at 11am. Otherwise, see you on Tuesday ready for Quiz B!

Screenshots for Zoom meeting:

Screenshots for uploading your discussion memo: