Week 6 Lecture - GenAI I - What Is It?

Lisa Yan, October 2nd, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required Amanda Guinzburg. Diabolus Ex Machina. 2025.
• Required Paul Bloom. A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem. 2025.

CS H195 Readings

• Required Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor. AI Snake Oil : What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference [Chapter 4, Chapter 8]. 2024.