Post by @fj@mastodon.social

@EPFL is now opening a Bachelor in Artificial Intelligence, starting in fall 2027.

Mandatory Sustainability course in the first year, courses ranging from AI ethics to Vector and Fourier Analysis. Seems interesting to rethink CS education in the wave of this evolution of the way of computing, while critically questioning it.

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-introduces-a-new-bachelor-in-artificial-intel/

Courses repartition across the study cycle.

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Linus Gasser

@ligasser@social.epfl.ch 24 min. ago

@fj And they killed "Systèmes de Communications" for this... I did a SysCom Master, back in the 2000s... Good old times 😊

Kind of funny to see your specialisation go away, and be replaced with something new. Makes me feel old! But definitely makes sense.

Frédéric Jacobs

@fj@mastodon.social 19 min. ago

@ligasser Oh, I didn’t realize this was instead of SysCom. Wow. Yeah, definitely end of an era. 😢

Linus Gasser

@ligasser@social.epfl.ch 18 min. ago

@fj Well, 2026 was the last 1st year Bachelor in SysCom, and 2027 goes AI. As I said, makes total sense...

Davi Ottenheimer

@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange 44 min. ago

@fj @EPFL bachelor seems early. one of the main problems with AI is the rush without context and gates. kids need the deep history of engineering disasters, and a mandatory code of ethics signature requirement. that's how I used to help teach AI safety in Austria. graduate level stuff.

Frédéric Jacobs

@fj@mastodon.social 40 min. ago

@flyingpenguin If you’re looking at course breakdowns, it doesn’t strike me as rushing to the AI and skipping basics. Still strong math, physics, programming, digital systems foundations before delving more into AI in the second and third year.
Even then, there’s still a lot of math and “common courses” (tronc commun). I think it’s reasonably balanced.

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