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Artificial Intelligence
 What is AI?
 The study of computations that make it
possible to PERCEIVE, REASON, and ACT
 Computing, perceiving, reasoning, acting
Computing
 What is computing?
 Alan Turing and turing machines established
the limits of computation
 Is intelligence achievable within the limits of
computation?
Intelligence
 Perception, reasoning, action
 Consider Eliza
Intelligence
 Reasoning: Consider Chess
 1996 Kasparov beat Deep Blue
 1997 Deep Blue beat Kasparov and retired to
computer heaven
 Is Deep Blue intelligent because it can beat
you and me easily and is currently world
champion at chess?
Intelligence
 Perception and Reasoning: Consider football
or basketball
Turing Test
 Alan Turing came up with the turing test
 If you cannot distinguish a human’s
responses from a computer’s, the computer is
intelligent
CS 476 / CS 676
 Representational issues permeate the course
 Search – Chess
 Expert systems – Mycin or Xcon
 Logic - reasoning
 Learning
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ID3, Neural Nets, Genetic algorithms
Syllabus
 Programming assignments
 Exams
 Project
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Teams
Grad projects must involve learning
Flexible and customizable
Presentations
Fox, Farmer, Goose, Grain
 A farmer wants to move himself, a hunrgry
silver fox, a hungry, fat goose, and a sack of
tasty grain across a river. Unfortunately, his
boat is so tiny he can move only one of his
possessions across on any trip.