AI OVERVIEW

1
st
semester AY 2013-2014
UP Mindanao
CD Yutiamco
Why study AI?
Search Engines
Labor
Appliances
Medical
Manufacturing plants
What is AI?
Systems that think like
humans
Systems that think
rationally
Systems that act like
humans
Systems that act rationally
Acting Humanly : Turing Test
Turing Test
computer passes test if a human interrogator asking written
questions can distinguish written answers from computer or human
Computer needs
Natural language processing
Knowledge representation
Automated reasoning
Machine learning
Physical interaction with the computer is unnecessary
Acting Humanly : Turing Test
Total Turing Test
Includes video signal
Computer needs
computer vision
robotics
Thinking Humanly : Cognitive Science
Cognitive Modeling approach to AI
The interdisciplinary field of cognitive science brings
together computer models from AI and experimental
techniques from psychology to try to construct precise
and testable theories of the workings of the human mind
Thinking Rationally : Laws of thought
approach
Laws of thought
Supposed to govern the operation of the mind
Goal : solve any problem based on logical manipulation
Acting Rationally : Rational agent
approach
Agent
Something that acts
Computer agent is not a mere program, it perceives, adapts and
persists
Rational agent
Goal : achieve best outcome/best expected outcome
Knowledge Representation
Tree, Grid, Network
Options
OO programming languages : classes/objects
Relational DB : tables/rows/columns
Problem
There are more types of things to represent