Download Artificial Intelligence - Computer Science

Nigel David
Robert Dunk
Introduction
 What is artificial intelligence?
 Merriam-Webster says it is a branch of computer science
dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in
computers
 An AI would be
 Not domain restricted
 Capable of Learning
 Autonomous
 Could pass as a human or better.
Technical Background
 The field of AI research was founded in a conference
room at Dartmouth college in 1956 where computers
were solving algebra problems and speaking English.
 In DARPA's Grand Challenge in 2005, a robot built by a
team from Stanford beat two other cars and drove over
130 miles in under 7 hours, winning the $2 million
prize.
 In 2010, the Berkeley Overmind AI defeated Oriol,
number 1 Starcraft player in Spain and a competitor at
the World Cyber Games.
AI pwning n00bs at chess
 Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer made by IBM,
beat world champion chess player Garry Kasparov in
1996 and again in 1997.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGATtigzCNA
Issue/problem
 AI’s will ultimately ascend past human limits of
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thinking.
Early AI’s will be able to create superintelligence which
supersedes what humans are capable of.
Will a successful AI have similar ethics to humans or
will it enslave/attack us like in “The Matrix”.
Will AI impact jobs for humans?
Ethical standpoints – Utilitarian and Kantian
Summary
 AI has come a long way and continues to push
boundaries.
 Scientific discoveries are moving closer to an
exponential singularity.
 Will we work with machines to make a better
tomorrow...?
 ...or fight against them for our own future?
Questions
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Refrences
 http://www.singinst.org.au/wp-
content/uploads/2010/10/Kevin-Korb-aiethics.pdf
 http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html