CS 486/686 Artificial Intelligence presents about What is AI? Rational agents, Some applications, Course administration, Artificial Intelligence, Some Definitions, Intelligent Assistive Technology, A brief history of AI. | CS 486/686 Artificial Intelligence May 3rd, 2005 University of Waterloo cs486/686 Lecture Slides (c) 2005 K. Larson and P. Poupart 1 Course Info • Instructor: Pascal Poupart – Email: cs486@ – Office Hours: TBA (watch Web page), by appt. • Lectures: Tue & Thu – Sect. 1: 08:30-09:50 (RCH306) – Sect. 2: 11:30-12:50 (MC2054) • Textbook: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition), by Russell & Norvig • Website – cs486/686 Lecture Slides (c) K. Larson and P. Poupart 2 Outline • • • • What is AI? (Chapter 1) Rational agents (Chapter 2) Some applications Course administration cs486/686 Lecture Slides (c) K. Larson and P. Poupart 3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Webster says: a. the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. faculty of thought and • What is AI? • What is intelligence? reason. • What features/abilities do humans (animals? animate objects?) have that you think are indicative or characteristic of intelligence? • abstract concepts, mathematics, language, problem solving, memory, logical reasoning, emotions, morality, ability to learn/adapt, etc cs486/686 Lecture Slides (c) K. Larson and P. Poupart 4 Some Definitions (Russell & Norvig) The exciting new effort to make computers that think machines with minds in the full and literal sense [Haugeland 85] [The automation of] activities that we associate with human thinking, such as decision making, problem solving, learning [Bellman 78] The study of mental faculties through the use of computational models [Charniak & McDermott 85] The study of computations that make it possible to perceive, reason and act [Winston 92] The art of creating machines that perform functions that require intelligence when performed by a human [Kurzweil 90] A field of study that seeks to explain and emulate intelligent behavior in terms of computational processes [Schalkoff 90] The study of how to make computers do things at .
