Unless otherwise stated this guide is based on Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Students created by Brenda Smith at TRU and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Brenda Smith's guide was adapted from Artificial Intelligence by Ulrike Kestler from KPU used under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to machines, and especially computer systems, doing tasks with human-like intelligence. AI-enabled technologies are used in many different fields such as manufacturing, transportation, medicine, banking, surveillance, and entertainment. You encounter them in daily life in examples like Alexa, Siri, facial recognition on your phone, voice-to-text messaging and autocorrection, getting directions from Google Maps, booking rideshares through Uber, recommendations for movies to watch on Netflix, ads that pop up in Facebook or Instagram that are based on your search histories, online banking, and much more.
Camosun Library subscribes to Credo Information Literacy modules, which include these two, short units on Artificial Intelligence.
These can be linked or embedded in D2L, but access is restricted to Camosun users only (off campus users will be prompted to log in with a Camosun domain account).
