Module 00 - Lecture 01 - Overview of AI and CI Flashcards
Overview of AI and CI
When did AI become a field?
1956
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How old is the AI field?
60 years.
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What happened in 1956 (event)?
The Dartmouth conference.
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What did John McCarthy coin in 1956?
The term AI.
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Who coined the term AI?
John McCarthy
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What is intelligence?
The ability to achieve goals in the world.
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What is artificial intelligence?
It is the sci and eng of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs.
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What is Russel & Norvig’s definition of AI? (3)
AI (1) acts and (2) thinks like a human, and (3) rationally.
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What are the “dual aims of AI”? (2)
To (1) augument and (2) understand human thinking with computer AIs.
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What is Herbert Simon known for in the slides? (Besides GPS)
“The dual aims of AI”
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What are some of the easier tasks for AI? (GDIT)
– playing chess/go
– medical diagnosis
– symbolic integration
– proving theorems
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What are some of the harder tasks for AI? (MPOST)
– (M)ind: Modeling the internal states of other animals from their behaviour
– (P)redator/prey: Catching prey and avoiding predators
– (O)bstacles: Walking around without running into things
– (S)ensory: Interpreting sensory info (visual, auditory, …)
– (T)eamwork: Working as a team (ants, bees)
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What period was the birth of AI (in the slides)?
1943 – 56
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What did McCulloch and Pitts’ model of neurons propose?
It proposed resting and firing states that could realize all propositional logic primitives.
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What’s special about the period 1943-1956?
The slides say it’s the “birth of AI”.
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When did McCulloch and Pitts propose their model?
1943
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What happened in 1950?
Alan Turing’s “Turing machine” and the “Turing test”.
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When did Alan Turing propose the Turing test?
1950.
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What did Claude Shannon think computers could do in the future?
Play chess.
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Who suggested computers could play chess?
Claude Shannon
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In what year was the Dartmouth conference held?
1956
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When was the period of “Early enthusiasm”?
1952 – 69
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What was emphasized in the period of “Early enthusiasm”?
Various general problem-solving algorithms like game tree search and A* search.
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Who invented the LISP, the programming language for AI?
John McCarthy
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What is John McCarthy known for?
Inventing the LISP, the programming language for AI.
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What did Marvin Minsky pioneer?
Artificial neural networks.
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Who invented the GPS (General problem solver)?
Alan Newell & Herbert Simon
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What did Alan Newell & Herbert Simon invent?
GPS (General problem solver)
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In the context of AI, what is GPS?
General problem solver, a system developed by Alan Newell & Herbert Simon.
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When was the period of Knowledge engineering?
1966 – 74