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Overview of AI and CI

When did AI become a field?

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1956

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How old is the AI field?

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60 years.

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What happened in 1956 (event)?

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The Dartmouth conference.

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What did John McCarthy coin in 1956?

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The term AI.

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Who coined the term AI?

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John McCarthy

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What is intelligence?

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The ability to achieve goals in the world.

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What is artificial intelligence?

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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)

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AI (1) acts and (2) thinks like a human, and (3) rationally.

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What are the “dual aims of AI”? (2)

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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)

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“The dual aims of AI”

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What are some of the easier tasks for AI? (GDIT)

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– playing chess/go
– medical diagnosis
– symbolic integration
– proving theorems

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What are some of the harder tasks for AI? (MPOST)

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– (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)?

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1943 – 56

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What did McCulloch and Pitts’ model of neurons propose?

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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?

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The slides say it’s the “birth of AI”.

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When did McCulloch and Pitts propose their model?

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1943

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What happened in 1950?

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Alan Turing’s “Turing machine” and the “Turing test”.

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When did Alan Turing propose the Turing test?

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1950.

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What did Claude Shannon think computers could do in the future?

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Play chess.

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Who suggested computers could play chess?

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Claude Shannon

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In what year was the Dartmouth conference held?

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1956

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When was the period of “Early enthusiasm”?

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1952 – 69

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What was emphasized in the period of “Early enthusiasm”?

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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?

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John McCarthy

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What is John McCarthy known for?

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Inventing the LISP, the programming language for AI.

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What did Marvin Minsky pioneer?

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Artificial neural networks.

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Who invented the GPS (General problem solver)?

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Alan Newell & Herbert Simon

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What did Alan Newell & Herbert Simon invent?

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GPS (General problem solver)

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In the context of AI, what is GPS?

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General problem solver, a system developed by Alan Newell & Herbert Simon.

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When was the period of Knowledge engineering?

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1966 – 74

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What is the name of the period between 1966 – 74?

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Knowledge engineering

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What is the main idea behind knowledge engineering?

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Domain-specific knowledge is the key to success

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What are the two Knowledge representation paradigms?

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Declarative vs. procedural

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When was the period of Expert systems?

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1969 – 99

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What period happened between (1969 – 99)?

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Expert systems

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What is the purpose of the DENDRAL AI?

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Determine 3D structures of complex chemical compounds

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What AI could determine 3D structures of complex chemical compounds?

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What is the MYCIN AI?

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A set of 450 rules for diagnosing blood infectious diseases.

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What early AI used rules for diagnosing blood infectious diseases?

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What is the PROSPECTOR AI?

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An AI doing something with geological ES for mineral deposits

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What AI did something with geological ES for mineral deposits?

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PROSPECTOR

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When was the AI industry period?

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1980 – 89

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What is the name of the 1980 – 89 AI period?

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The AI industry period

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When was the second AI winter?

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Late 80s and early 90s.

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When was the period called the Modern stage

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1990 – present

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What is the name of the AI period from 1990 – the present?

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The Modern stage.

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How did goals change in the modern stage?

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More realistic goals, more application-oriented

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In the modern stage, how did the scale of AI develop?

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-> Distributed AI (DAI) and intelligent agents

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What came back in the modern stage? (C+AFE)

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resurgence of computational intelligence (soft computing) –
- ANNs, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms

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In the modern stage, what is the dominating method?

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Machine learning and deep learning

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What is weak AI?

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Machines can be made to act as if they were intelligent.

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What are machines called when they act AS IF they were intelligent?

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What is strong AI?

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Machines that act intelligently and have real, conscious minds.

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What do you call machines with real, conscious minds?

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What is the turning test?

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A human communicates with a computer via a teletype. It passes if the human can’t tell he is talking to a computer or another human.

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What is the Total Turing Test?

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The Turing Test + vision and robotics.

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What do you get when you combine the Turing Test with robotics and vision?

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The Total Turing Test.

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What are the differences between the imitation game and the turning test?

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Imitation game: Distinguish between male/female.
Turing test: Distinguish between human/robot.

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How does the turning test work?

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There are three participants. You, a human and an AI.
You ask text questions through a screen to find out which is the human and which is the AI.

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What is PSSH short for?

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Physical Symbol System Hypothesis

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What is the PSSH (Physical Symbol System Hypothesis)?

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Intelligent action can be modelled by a system manipulating symbols.

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What is the name of this hypothesis?
Intelligent action can be modelled by a system manipulating symbols.

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PSSH (Physical Symbol System Hypothesis)

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What are the 2 ways of achieving AI (per the slides)?

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Biological and phenomenal

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When looking at how to achieve AI, what is “The Biological Approach”?

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Study humans and imitate their psychology or physiology.

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When looking at how to achieve AI, what is “The Phenomenal Approach”?

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Study and formalize common sense facts about the world and problems the world presents to achieve goals.

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What are the main techniques of AI? (SEA)

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  • Search
  • Knowledge-Based Systems (Expert Systems)
  • Agent-based
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What is search?

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Looking for solutions to problems in a feature space.

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What is symbolic AI? (TSL)

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  • Top-down approach
  • Symbol processing
  • Logic programming
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What are Knowldege-Based Systems? (KIL)

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  • Knowledge base
  • Inference/reasoning engine
  • Logic languages like Prolog, Lisp
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What is Computational Intelligence? (BILD)

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  • Bottom-up approach
  • Bio-inspired
  • Learning from experiences/examples
  • Info stored in a distributed manner, no centralized control
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What is the main idea behind soft computing?

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Allow tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, and partial truth.

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What are Evolutionary Algorithms based on?

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Darwin’s evolution theory, Survival of the fittest

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What is Evolutionary optimization?

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“Survival of the fittest”, genetic heredity, and mutation.

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What’s an Agent? (PAG)

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Something that:
1) Perceives its environment through sensors
2) Acts upon the environment through effectors
3) Progress towards its goals.

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What does it mean when an agent is task-specific?

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It has well-defined goals and environment

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What is a utility agent?

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An agent that tries to maximize its utility, i.e. happiness.

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