V Artificial Intelligence or AI is a type of

computer technology which is concerned with

making machines work in an intelligent way,
similar to the way that the human mind works.
V ÷earch
AI programs often examine large numbers of possibilities,
e.g. moves in a chess game or inferences by a theorem
proving program. Discoveries are continually made about
how to do this more efficiently in various domains.
V Logic
What a program knows about the world in general the
facts of the specific situation in which it must act, and its
goals are all represented by sentences of some
mathematical logical language. The program decides
what to do by inferring that certain actions are
appropriate for achieving its goals.
V @attern Recognition
When a program makes observations of some kind,
it is often programmed to compare what it sees with
a pattern. For example, a vision program may try to
match a pattern of eyes and a nose in a scene in
order to find a face. More complex patterns, e.g. in a
natural language text, in a chess position, or in the
history of some event are also studied. These more
complex patterns require quite different methods
than do the simple patterns that have been studied
the most.
V Inference
From some facts, others can be inferred.
Mathematical logical deduction is adequate for some
purposes, but new methods of r r
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inference have been added to logic since the 1970s.
The simplest kind of non-monotonic reasoning is
default reasoning in which a conclusion is to be
inferred by default, but the conclusion can be
withdrawn if there is evidence to the contrary.
V ommon ÷ense and Reasoning
This is the area in which AI is farthest from human-
level, in spite of the fact that it has been an active
research area since the 1950s. While there has been
considerable progress, e.g. in developing systems of
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rr and theories of action, yet
more new ideas are needed. The yc system
contains a large but spotty collection of common
sense facts.
V Robots
V Video games
V Recommendations on Amazon, iTunes, and
Yahoo
V ÷earch engines
V Judget
$900 million industry in 1993
$21 billion industry in 2007
V Artificial body parts
Arms, hands, eyes, and pancreas·
V Explore dangerous areas
÷pace and oceans
V @erform dangerous tasks
Mining and digging for fuel
This woman has a mind-controlled prosthetic arm.
V Loss of jobs
V Loss of need for human intelligence
V Human emotions may not be present
aring, love, compassion
V Artificial vision gets sharper all the time. Artificial
walking has made great robot strides. Jut artificial
intelligence is brain-dead. Why? Jecause while
researchers have built awesome technology,
they've failed to grapple with philosophy.
V Early computer scientists like Alan Turing and
John von Neumann attempted to spin logic
circuitry into thinking machines. ÷o they designed
their creations to excel at tasks they thought
embodied the heights of human intellect:
calculating sums, analyzing geometry, and playing
chess.
V In 1958, a computer beat a human chess player
³an inexperienced one ³ for the first time.
Juoyed by this success, researchers embarked
on a long attempt to invent a machine that
could (a) talk just like Turing, (b) walk around
in a robot body looking at stuff, picking it up,
and using it neatly, (c) read newspapers and
maybe correct the editors, and (d) program its
own successors.
V The notion of intelligent machines inspired a
blizzard of books and movies, but practical
returns were meager. Over the years,
computers failed one commonsense task after
another: manipulating unfamiliar objects,
understanding natural language,
distinguishing a dog from a cat. Despite steady
advances in hardware, no machine could think
as far as to laugh at a pratfall or make a bad
pun.
V Nowadays, Google "knows" pretty much
anything you ask it. Jut its insanely fast and
powerful work is modestly described as data-
mining, not thinking. That vast, globe-
spanning, superpowerful, ultrawealthy Web
spider has yet to awaken and declare, "I am
Google.´ Jut if it starts writing philosophy, all
bets are off.
V onsidering the recent developments made in
artificial intelligence technology, I feel that
artificial intelligence has a promising future of
aiding man in his ever intensifying world. This
being said, the possibility of human-like
intelligence is definitely not within the near
future.
V A robot takeover is not likely to happen very
soon. ÷orry Mr. Ritter«
V Transformers
V WALL E
V ÷tar Trek
V The ÷mart House
V The Matrix