AI Convergence Education Programs Combined with Humanities Elements

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating its development through the convergence of various fields and studies. Among them, the convergence of AI and humanities draws attention from academia. Therefore, this paper shows the results of developing AI Convergence education programs by combining humanities elements. The first of the educational programs proposed in this paper combines Unhaeduchangjipyo, an ancient document of Korean historical value, to teach the expert system, one of the applications of AI. The document’s concept is similar to the modern expert system because Unhaeduchangjipyo exemplified how to cope with infectious diseases. This program was developed for middle school students and deals with the topics of how to analyze problems with infectious diseases, designing medical-related expert systems, and developing expert systems through programming. The second educational program incorporates popular paintings of Monet’s, and a fairy tale, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Students can easily understand supervised learning with the paintings. Moreover, Goldilocks, which has become a symbol of just the right state without any shortage or remaining, is an example of an appropriate dataset related with overfitting and underfitting. This program was developed for elementary school students and includes the types of machine learning, the understanding of overfitting and underfitting, and the game of the principles of overfitting and underfitting. We hope to provide implications for AI humanities and AI convergence education through this paper.