Download Final Thoughts on COSC 6368 and AI in General

Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368
Topics Covered in COSC 6368
• More general topics:
– heuristic search and search algorithm in general
– logical reasoning
• AI-specific Topics:
– resolution / theorem proving
– reasoning in uncertain environments and belief
networks
– knowledge-based systems
– machine learning centering on inductive learning
– brief coverage of ontologies, evolutionary computing,
AI in general
Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368
AI in General and What Was not
Covered in COSC 6368
• Robotics is a quite important sub-field of AI, but very few
teach it in the graduate AI class.
• Planning and natural language understanding deserve more
coverage than they received in this class.
• Intelligent Agents and AI for the Internet might become more
important changing what is taught in graduate AI-classes in a
few years from now.
• Data Mining and Intelligent Data Understanding should
perhaps be covered in more depth.
Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368
Positive Forces for AI
• Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining (KDD)
• Intelligent Agents for WWW
• Robotics (Robot Soccer, Intelligent Driving, Robot
Waiters…)
• Creating of Knowledge Bases and Sharing of Knowledge
(especially for Science and Engineering)
• Computer Chess and Computer Games --- AI for
Entertainment
Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368
Five “Laws” of AI
• Bounded rationality implies opportunistic search
• A physical system symbol is necessary and
sufficient for intelligent action (PSSH)
• The magic number is: 70000 +/- 20000
• Search compensates for lack of knowledge
• Knowledge compensates for lack of search