The Idea of Artificial Intelligence

Question 1

What begins the history of Artificial Intelligence?

Answer 1

“Computing, Machinery and Intelligence”- Turing

Begins with “Can Machines think?” Introduces Turing test

Question 2

What is the Turing Test?

Answer 2

A computer can be said to possess artificial intelligence if it can mimic human responses under specific conditions.

A human and a computer respond to questions, the participant is asked to identify which is the computer and which is the human

Question 3

What paradigms were there in AI?

Answer 3

cognitive tasks viewed as abstract search problems
Neural networks
probability

Question 4

Describe how AI developed from a view of cognitive tasks as abstract search problems

Answer 4

Knowledge base- rules and facts

inference engine- procedures for searching knowledge base

Question 5

Describe neural networks. What are they useful for?

Answer 5

collections of simple processing units connected by links of varying strength. Useful for pattern recognition tasks.