COMM 155Artificial Intelligence and New Media
Communication · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have made rapid progress in recent years on various fronts. Many of their advanced techniques are being transferred to number of domains such as business, transportation, medicine, advertisement, military operations, and social media, and aiding our decision making, planning, reasoning, and forecasting. Review of origin and modern development of artificial intelligence and its recent breakthroughs through many applications with special emphasis on its usages of media industry, e.g., personalization, recommendation, and targeted advertising. Covers its technical merits as well as controversies such as ethical and moral issues of AI, privacy concerns in data collection, and fair use of AI in general. Prior knowledge in mathematics, statistics, or computer science not required. Discussion of elementary technical details as course unfolds.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: Computer Science 31 or 32 or Program in Computing 10A or 10B with grade of C+ or better.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COMM 155
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COMPTNG 10BIntermediate Programming
4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 7 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.