Students' interest in knowledge acquisition in Artificial Intelligence

• Main Authors: Petrescu, Manuela-Andreea, Pop, Emilia-Loredana, Mihoc, Tudor-Dan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 26-11-2023
• Subjects: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science - Computers and Society; Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Science - Software Engineering
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.16193

27th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent
Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2023), Procedia Computer Science 225C,
ISSN 1877-0509, 1027-1035, 2023 Some students' expectations and points of view related to the Artificial
Intelligence course are explored and analyzed in this study. We anonymous
collected answers from 58 undergraduate students out of 200 enrolled in the
Computer Science specialization. The answers were analysed and interpreted
using thematic analysis to find out their interests and attractive and
unattractive aspects related to the Artificial Intelligence study topic. We
concluded that students are interested in Artificial Intelligence due to its
trendiness, applicability, their passion and interest in the subject, the
potential for future growth, and high salaries. However, the students'
expectations were mainly related to achieving medium knowledge in the
Artificial Intelligence field, and men seem to be more interested in acquiring
high-level skills than women. The most common part that wasn't enjoyed by the
students was the mathematical aspect used in Artificial Intelligence. Some of
them (a small group) were also aware of the Artificial Intelligence potential
which could be used in an unethical manner for negative purposes. Our study
also provides a short comparison to the Databases course, in which students
were not that passionate or interested in achieving medium knowledge, their
interest was related to DB usage and basic information.