In the year 2023, we witnessed the incredible rise of AI technology, with the emergence of ChatGPT capturing the attention of various industries. Topics such as “Industries to be Replaced by AI” and “The Next Generation Must Compete with AI” continue to fuel discussions in major media outlets. As a pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and computer science nationwide, the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at NTU introduced a notable new course titled “Introduction to Generative AI” in the second semester of the 2023 academic year. This course is open to students from both the college and the College of Liberal Arts, with several departments in the latter designating it as either an elective or compulsory course. Students enrolled in the course are not required to possess prior knowledge of machine learning or AI, and the course is instead conducted with the expectation that students from various fields can use it as a starting point to understand AI and disseminate knowledge of generative AI to other professional domains. Additionally, this course applies AI technology innovatively to assignment grading, aiming to alleviate the burden on teachers and teaching assistants by incorporating generative AI into campus teaching practices.
Moreover, generative AI technology has been applied in our university’s proprietary teaching platform, NTU COOL, through the introduction of automatically generated subtitles for teaching videos. This not only helps reduce barriers to learning for hearing-impaired students but also assists in the learning of general students, thereby enhancing the overall effectiveness of learning. Although many voice recognition software solutions exist on the market, accurately identifying specialized terminology used in the NTU courses, especially in bilingual contexts, remains one of our forward-looking technological challenges. The NTU COOL team has obtained support for computational resources from the “NVIDIA-NTU Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing Applications Research Program” to develop voice recognition technology tailored for our course recordings.
In the image on the left, Professor Hung-Yi Lee, who teaches "Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence," is seen frequently engaging in discussions with students to spark various ideas. (Image courtesy of "The Teaching and Learning Stories of Outstanding Teachers in NTU, vol. 12")
This AI-generated image of a classroom exudes a sense of technology. The many sculptures on the podium upfront, along with the calligraphy and paintings adorning the left side of the classroom, showcase the relevance of generative AI to various industries.
The automatic subtitle generation technology was developed for NTU COOL.
