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Artificial Intelligence & Prolog Programming CSL 302
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Introduction
Intelligence: “ability to learn, understand and think” (Oxford dictionary)
AI is the study of how to make computers make things which at the moment people do better.
Examples: Speech recognition, Face, Object, Intuition, Inferencing, Learning new skills, Decision making, Abstract thinking
AI is a branch of computer science concerned with the study and creation of computer systems that exhibit some form of intelligence:
Systems that learn new concepts and tasks
Systems that can reason and draw conclusions about the world around us
Systems that can understand natural language or perceive and comprehend a visual scene
& systems that perform other types of feats that require human types of intelligence
The State of the Art
Computer beats human in a chess game.
Computer-human conversation using speech recognition.
Expert system controls a spacecraft.
Robot can walk on stairs and hold a cup of water.
Home appliances use fuzzy logic.
Acting Humanly: The Turing Test
Predicted that by 2000, a machine might have a 30% chance of fooling a lay person for 5 minutes.
Anticipated all major arguments against AI in
following 50 years.
Suggested major components of AI: knowledge,
reasoning, language, understanding, learning.