ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Chapter 1: Introduction Artificial

A Intelligence

Eng Mecad Abdilahi

Amoud University
course: artificial intelligence
instructor : Eng. Mecad Abdilahi

Eng Mecad Abdilahi

 Outline
• Course overview
• What is AI?
• A brief history
• The state of the art
What do you THINK about Artificial
Intelligence (AI)?
 What is AI, actually?
• Artificial Intelligence(AI) is a way of making a
computer, a computer-controlled robot, or a
software think intelligently, in the similar manner
the intelligent humans think.
• AI is accomplished by studying how human brain
thinks, and how humans learn, decide, and work
while trying to solve a problem, and then using the
outcomes of this study as a basis of developing
intelligent software and systems.

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 What is AI, actually?
• Ability to interact with the real world
– to perceive, understand, and act
• speech recognition and understanding and synthesis
• image understanding
• ability to take actions, have an effect

• Reasoning and Planning

– modeling the external world, given input
– solving new problems, planning, and making decisions
– ability to deal with unexpected problems, uncertainties

• Learning and Adaptation

– we are continuously learning and adapting
– our internal models are always being “updated”
Real-World Applications
 What is Intelligence in AI?
• Acting Humanly
• Thinking Humanly
• Thinking Rationally
• Acting Rationally
 Acting Humanly
• Approach: Turing Test
• Computer capabilities:
– Natural language processing
– Knowledge representation
– Automated reasoning
– Machine learning
 Thinking Humanly
• Approach: Cognitive Modelling
• Experimenting how humans think
– Collect sufficiently precise theory
– Express this theory as a computer program
– > if the program input / output and timing
behavior matches human behavior, the
program mechanism may also be operating in
human
 Thinking Rationally
• Approach: Law of Thought
• To govern the operation of the mind and
initiated the field of logic
– E.g. Given “Ali is a man” and “All men are
mortal” therefore “Ali is a mortal”
 Acting Rationally
• Approach: Rational Agent
• Acting so as to achieve one’s goals, given
one’s beliefs
– Make correct inferences based on reasoning
– Act on the conclusion
Q&A
 AI in Automobiles
• Safety feature
• Handicap capability
• Fuel-saving system
• Handling system
• Etc…
 AI in Computer Games
• Decision making
• AI-Bot agents
• Searching space
• Etc…
 AI in Biotechnology and
Healthcare
• Disease prediction
• Virus identification
• Health Information System
• Etc…
 AI in Pattern Recognition
Applications
• Face recognition detection
• Handwriting recognition
• Geographic Information System
• Etc…
 AI in Web Technology
• Web 2.0 technologies
• Searching engines
• Social network analysis
• Etc…
 AI in Mobile Applications
• Intelligent mobile hotspot
• Ad hoc network applications
• Ubiquitous services
• Etc…
 Goals of AI
• To Create Expert Systems − The
systems which exhibit intelligent behavior,
learn, demonstrate, explain, and advice its
users.
• To Implement Human Intelligence in
Machines − Creating systems that
understand, think, learn, and behave like
humans.

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 Major Branches of AI (1)
– Perceptive system
• A system that approximates the way a human sees, hears,
and feels objects
– Vision system
• Capture, store, and manipulate visual images and pictures
– Robotics
• Mechanical and computer devices that perform tedious tasks
with high precision
– Expert system
• Stores knowledge and makes inferences
 Major Branches of AI (2)
– Learning system
• Computer changes how it functions or reacts to situations
based on feedback
– Natural language processing
• Computers understand and react to statements and
commands made in a “natural” language, such as English
– Neural network
• Computer system that can act like or simulate the functioning
of the human brain

Schematic
 Artificial
intelligence

Vision Learning
systems systems

Robotics
Expert systems

Neural networks
Natural language
processing
 AI actually
John McCarthy, Stanford University
• It is the science and engineering of making
intelligent machines, especially intelligent
computer programs.
• It is related to the similar task of using
computers to understand human
intelligence, but AI does not have to confine
itself to methods that are biologically
observable
 History of AI
• 1943: early beginnings
– McCulloch & Pitts: Boolean circuit model of brain
• 1950: Turing
– Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence“
• 1956: birth of AI

– Dartmouth meeting: "Artificial Intelligence“ name adopted

• 1950s: initial promise

– Early AI programs, including
• Samuel's checkers program

• Newell & Simon's Logic Theorist

• 1955-65: “great enthusiasm”

– Newell and Simon: GPS, general problem solver

– Gelertner: Geometry Theorem Prover

– McCarthy: invention of LISP

 History of AI
• 1966-73: Reality dawns
– Realization that many AI problems are intractable
– Limitations of existing neural network methods identified
• Neural network research almost disappears

• 1969-85: Adding domain knowledge

– Development of knowledge-based systems
– Success of rule-based expert systems,
• E.g., DENDRAL, MYCIN
• But were brittle and did not scale well in practice

• 1986: Rise of machine learning

– Neural networks return to popularity
– Major advances in machine learning algorithms and applications

• 1990: Role of uncertainty

– Bayesian networks as a knowledge representation framework

• 1995: AI as Science
– Integration of learning, reasoning, knowledge representation
– AI methods used in vision, language, data mining, etc
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