Lecture 01 - Evolutionary AI and robotics intro Flashcards
What is symbolic AI?
Algorithmically driven AI, e.g. knowledge graphs.
What is subsymbolic AI?
Connectionist, bio-inspired AI.
What is weak AI?
Narrow AI that solves a specific task, often better than humans.
What is strong AI?
An AI that can learn/perform ANY intellectual task, i.e. learn to learn.
What is a simple system?
Completely correlated + totally independent parts. Can still be complicated/difficult.
What is a complex system?
A system of components that interact with each other, often in a nonlinear fashion.
What does self-organizing mean for a complex system?
Systematized behavior can develop from seemingly random conditions.
What is emergent behavior?
some property of a system observed at macroscopic scales are difficult to explain by microscopic rules that drive the system behavior
What is self-organization?
system spontaneously organizes itself to produce nontrivial macroscopic behavior, over time
What are the 5 typical features of complex systems? (CLOSE)
- Small ”simple” components
- Locally correlated and interacting parts
- Self-organization (over time)
- “The whole is more than the sum of its parts”
- Emergence (over scale)
What is a model?
a simplified representation of a system (verbal, conceptual, diagrammatic, physical, formal, mathematical)
What is Engineering?
effort to control/influence nature (or a system) to make something desirable happen, by creating and controlling models
What are the two approaches to modeling mentioned?
Descriptive modeling and rule-based modeling
What is descriptive modeling?
Trying to capture “what the system looks like”, e.g. taking a photo.
What is rule-based modeling?
Trying to capture “how the system will behave”, e.g. dynamical equations.
