Artificial Intelligence

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Outline
♦ What is AI? ♦ A brief history ♦ The state of the art

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What is AI?

Systems that think like humans Systems that think rationally Systems that act like humans Systems that act rationally

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Acting humanly: The Turing test
Turing (1950) “Computing machinery and intelligence”: ♦ “Can machines think?” −→ “Can machines behave intelligently?” ♦ Operational test for intelligent behavior: the Imitation Game
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♦ Predicted that by 2000, a machine might have a 30% chance of fooling a lay person for 5 minutes ♦ Anticipated all major arguments against AI in following 50 years ♦ Suggested major components of AI: knowledge, reasoning, language understanding, learning Problem: Turing test is not reproducible, constructive, or amenable to mathematical analysis
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Thinking humanly: Cognitive Science
1960s “cognitive revolution”: information-processing psychology replaced prevailing orthodoxy of behaviorism Requires scientific theories of internal activities of the brain – What level of abstraction? “Knowledge” or “circuits”? – How to validate? Requires 1) Predicting and testing behavior of human subjects (top-down) or 2) Direct identification from neurological data (bottom-up) Both approaches (roughly, Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience) are now distinct from AI Both share with AI the following characteristic: the available theories do not explain (or engender) anything resembling human-level general intelligence Hence, all three fields share one principal direction!

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Thinking rationally: Laws of Thought
Normative (or prescriptive) rather than descriptive Aristotle: what are correct arguments/thought processes? Several Greek schools developed various forms of logic: notation and rules of derivation for thoughts; may or may not have proceeded to the idea of mechanization Direct line through mathematics and philosophy to modern AI Problems: 1) Not all intelligent behavior is mediated by logical deliberation 2) What is the purpose of thinking? What thoughts should I have out of all the thoughts (logical or otherwise) that I could have?

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Acting rationally
Rational behavior: doing the right thing The right thing: that which is expected to maximize goal achievement, given the available information Doesn’t necessarily involve thinking—e.g., blinking reflex—but thinking should be in the service of rational action Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics): Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good

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Rational agents
An agent is an entity that perceives and acts This course is about designing rational agents Abstractly, an agent is a function from percept histories to actions: f : P∗ → A For any given class of environments and tasks, we seek the agent (or class of agents) with the best performance Caveat: computational limitations make perfect rationality unachievable → design best program for given machine resources

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AI prehistory
Philosophy logic, methods of reasoning mind as physical system foundations of learning, language, rationality Mathematics formal representation and proof algorithms, computation, (un)decidability, (in)tractability probability Psychology adaptation phenomena of perception and motor control experimental techniques (psychophysics, etc.) Economics formal theory of rational decisions Linguistics knowledge representation grammar Neuroscience plastic physical substrate for mental activity Control theory homeostatic systems, stability simple optimal agent designs

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Potted history of AI
1943 1950 1952–69 1950s 1956 1965 1966–74 1969–79 1980–88 1988–93 1985–95 1988– 1995– 2003– McCulloch & Pitts: Boolean circuit model of brain Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” Look, Ma, no hands! Early AI programs, including Samuel’s checkers program, Newell & Simon’s Logic Theorist, Gelernter’s Geometry Engine Dartmouth meeting: “Artificial Intelligence” adopted Robinson’s complete algorithm for logical reasoning AI discovers computational complexity Neural network research almost disappears Early development of knowledge-based systems Expert systems industry booms Expert systems industry busts: “AI Winter” Neural networks return to popularity Resurgence of probability; general increase in technical depth “Nouvelle AI”: ALife, GAs, soft computing Agents, agents, everywhere . . . Human-level AI back on the agenda
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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis ♦ Drive safely along a curving mountain road

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis ♦ Drive safely along a curving mountain road ♦ Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology Write an intentionally funny story

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology Write an intentionally funny story Give competent legal advice in a specialized area of law

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology Write an intentionally funny story Give competent legal advice in a specialized area of law Translate spoken English into spoken Swedish in real time

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology Write an intentionally funny story Give competent legal advice in a specialized area of law Translate spoken English into spoken Swedish in real time Converse successfully with another person for an hour

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology Write an intentionally funny story Give competent legal advice in a specialized area of law Translate spoken English into spoken Swedish in real time Converse successfully with another person for an hour Perform a complex surgical operation

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology Write an intentionally funny story Give competent legal advice in a specialized area of law Translate spoken English into spoken Swedish in real time Converse successfully with another person for an hour Perform a complex surgical operation Unload any dishwasher and put everything away

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State of the art
Which of the following can be done at present? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Play a decent game of table tennis Drive safely along a curving mountain road Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue Buy a week’s worth of groceries on the web Buy a week’s worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl Play a decent game of bridge Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem Design and execute a research program in molecular biology Write an intentionally funny story Give competent legal advice in a specialized area of law Translate spoken English into spoken Swedish in real time Converse successfully with another person for an hour Perform a complex surgical operation Unload any dishwasher and put everything away

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Unintentionally funny stories
One day Joe Bear was hungry. He asked his friend Irving Bird where some honey was. Irving told him there was a beehive in the oak tree. Joe threatened to hit Irving if he didn’t tell him where some honey was. The End. Henry Squirrel was thirsty. He walked over to the river bank where his good friend Bill Bird was sitting. Henry slipped and fell in the river. Gravity drowned. The End. Once upon a time there was a dishonest fox and a vain crow. One day the crow was sitting in his tree, holding a piece of cheese in his mouth. He noticed that he was holding the piece of cheese. He became hungry, and swallowed the cheese. The fox walked over to the crow. The End.

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Unintentionally funny stories
Joe Bear was hungry. He asked Irving Bird where some honey was. Irving refused to tell him, so Joe offered to bring him a worm if he’d tell him where some honey was. Irving agreed. But Joe didn’t know where any worms were, so he asked Irving, who refused to say. So Joe offered to bring him a worm if he’d tell him where a worm was. Irving agreed. But Joe didn’t know where any worms were, so he asked Irving, who refused to say. So Joe offered to bring him a worm if he’d tell him where a worm was . . .

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