1 - Intro

Question 1

What is considered the origins of AI?

Answer 1

• Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 1950
  “Turing Test: Can a machine playing a question answer game fool a human into thinking it is not a machine?”
• The term AI coined by John Mccarthy at Dartmouth Conference 1956

Question 2

Give some success of AI

Answer 2

1997 IBM Deep Blue beats world chess champion
2011 IBM Watson beats reigining champions on Jeopardy
2016 DeepMind’s AlphaGo
2017 CMU Libratus poker

Question 3

Why is AI becoming more popular?

Answer 3

Cheaper
Faster
Increased connectivity
Ease of data gathering

Question 4

Give some key issues of AI

Answer 4

Narrowness
Explain ability: Good decisions but can’t always explain process
Accountability: No clear accountability if things go wrong
Hard decisions: moral dilemmas