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* * * AI– CS410, SJTU, 2010 2010/2011 Semester 2 Introduction: Chapter 1 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CS410 Course home page: /ai/ schedule, lecture notes, tutorials, assignment, grading, office hours, etc. Textbook: S. Russell and P. Norvig Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach Prentice Hall, 2003, Second Edition Lecturer: Liqing Zhang Grading: Assignment +Class Test(20%), Projects (40%), Final report (40%) Class participation includes participation in both lectures and tutorials (attendance, asking and answering questions, presenting solutions to tutorial questions). Note that attendance at every lecture and tutorial will be taken and constitutes part of the class participation grade. Course overview Introduction and Agents (chapters 1,2) Search (chapters 3,4,5,6) Logic (chapters 7,8,9) Planning (chapters 11,12) Uncertainty (chapters 13,14) Learning (chapters 18,20) Natural Language Processing (chapter 22,23) Outline Course overview What is AI? A brief history The state of the art What is AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) Intelligent behavior in artifacts “Design computer programs to make computers smarter” “Study of how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are better” Intelligent behavior Perception, reasoning, learning, communicating, acting in complex environments Long term goals of AI Develop machines that do things as well as humans can or possibly even better Understand intelligent behaviors What Is AI? Can machines think? Depend on the definitions of “machine”, “think”, “can” “Can” Can machines think now or someday? Might machines be able to think theoretically or actually? “Machine” E6 Bacteriophage: Machine made of proteins Searle’s belief What we are made of is fundamental to our intelligence Thinking can occur only in very special machines – living ones made of proteins Figure 1.1 Schematic Illustration of E6 Bacteriophage What Is AI? What is AI? Views of AI fall into four categories: Thinking humanly Thinking rationally