What happened

Shanghai Jiao Tong University faculty and students attended senior sister Chen Liya's lecture series, learning the basic concepts of AI, models and generative technologies, and the practical applications boundaries in research and life. The lectures emphasize that AI is not a single machine but a system that includes data, models, and application layers, and point out that in scientific research AI can help organize literature, standardize data, and polish text, but originality and problem definition still require human oversight.

Why it matters

The course reminds students to correctly understand the capability boundaries of AI, emphasizes concerns about privacy, ethics, and responsibility, and encourages an evidence-based, line-by-line verification approach in research.

The talk explained AI as more than a single machine. It is a system with foundation layers, large models, and applications, and it teaches us to look for patterns between inputs and outputs. Participants learned how neural networks update through forward and backward passes, and how models like Transformer work.

The session also warned that generated text and predictions are not always correct. Students were reminded to verify AI outputs and to keep records of how AI was used in research, especially in scientific work.

FOR PEOPLE

Benefits reported

AI can assist learning and research with human oversight.

FOR AI AND ITS OPERATORS

Benefits reported

AI supports tasks like data handling and writing, but humans verify results.

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  1. From “What is AI” to “AI Empowering Science”: Decoding the Scientific Logic of Artificial Intelligence , Lecture 4 on Data, Models, and Science by Senior Student Chen Liya ↗Shanghai Jiao Tong University News Network · 2026-11-04

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