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Artificial Intelligence CS 165A Fall 2004 Lecture 1 Prof. Terry Smith Goals of this course To teach you the main ideas of AI To introduce you to a set of key techniques and algorithms from AI To help you understand what’s hard in AI and why To see how AI relates to the rest of computer science To get you thinking about how AI can be applied to a variety of real problems To have fun Course administrivia Web sites /~cs165a /group/UCSB-CS165A Syllabus Discussion sessions Schedule Assignments Assignment #0 due on Tuesday! Expectations Come to class, and come prepared Participate: Ask questions, offer insight, tell me I’m wrong... Think! What is Artificial Intelligence? AI in the media Popular movies 2001: A Space Odyssey Star Trek The Terminator AI: The Movie Popular press, novels Often portrayed as A property of evil computers Computers doing impossible things Public view Books and movies have inspired many AI researchers Books and movies have raised the public’s expectations What is Artificial Intelligence? (cont.) “The science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs.” “The business of getting computers to do things they cannot already do, or things they can only do in movies and science fiction stories.” “The study of how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are better.” “The design of flexible programs that respond productively in situations that were not specifically anticipated by the designer.” “The construction of computations that perceive, reason, and act effectively in uncertain environments.” “The branch of CS concerned with enabling computers to simulate such aspects of human intelligence as speech recognition, deduction, inference, creative response, the ability to learn from experience, and the ability to make inferences given incomplete information.” “Modeling aspects of human cognition on computers” “What AI people do” Goals of AI Scientific To understand the principles and me