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Tomorrow’s Technology
and You
Chapter 15
Artificial
Intelligence
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Slide 1
Chapter 15
Objectives
Define artificial intelligence and discuss its
most common applications.
Explore Implications & Ethical Questions
relating to AI
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What Is Artificial Intelligence? (pp 552-556)
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“…when computers do the things that make people
seem intelligent.”
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who gave us this definition? when? what is wrong with it?
“…the study of how to make computers do things at
which, at the moment, people are better.”
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This definition has problems too – what are they?
Is there a better definition?
Pros, and cons of approaches to AI?
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simulation
‘brute force’ searching
machine learning
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AI Applications
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Machine Translation (pp 556-557)
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what are ‘parsing programs’? How well do they
work?
what method is used today? Where on the Web?
Expert Systems (p 558-564)
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Examples? Benefits? Possible problems?
OCR (p 565-566)
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uses? limitations?
Voice Input and output (p 566-569)
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uses? limitations? Possible problems?
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AI – Implications & Ethical Questions
(pp 570-575)
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What are the consequences of the growing use of ‘steel-collar’
workers?
What results can come from making a machine (eg ELIZA)
appear human?
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Is this likely to be an increasing problem?
MEMS and nanomachines
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how much is possible today?
future possibilities? possible problems?
“Human vs machine”
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What is your view of the answer to the questions on p 575?
Do you believe that ‘humanity urgently needs to begin preparing’ for
singularity? If so, how? If not, why not?
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