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As a result of greater computing power and Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly improving for well-defined tasks and narrow intelligence. Moreover, it has entered all industries in a myriad of ways. But will AI ever have human-like general intelligence? What does humanlike general intelligence even mean? Why should we even care? This course is designed to answer these complex questions by giving students working knowledge of the underlying principles and mechanisms of human behavior and cognition, and how they may be applied to solving current and rising industry challenges. Key topics to be addressed will include vision, audition, language, learning, emotion and social cognition, creativity, and consciousness. Students will apply learned topics to a final group research project on the topic of their choice.