Artificial Intelligence Chapter 1 Chapter 1 1 Outline ♦ What is AI? ♦ A brief history ♦ The state of the art Chapter 1 2 What is AI? Systems that think like humans Systems that think rationally Systems that act like humans Systems that act rationally Chapter 1 3 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
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human life, all psychological, economic, and social factors. The world that Huxley has created is a place where free thinking has never been a thought, and the freedom to choose can never be chosen. In the Matrix, a technological evolution creates artificial intelligence, that views humanity as a virus that needs to be eliminated. In the movies, people are “programed” before they are born so they can be controlled. The worlds of The Matrix and Brave New World both revolve around societies that are
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software, and the branch of computer science that develops machines and software with intelligence. Major AI researchers and textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents",[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success.[2] John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955,[3] defines it as "the science and engineering of making
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Module 6 – Written Assignment – Analysis of a Specific Medical Advancement – Jeffrey Fischbein – 2/11/14 Rocket-Powered Prosthetic Arm We have all heard the cliché “you don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone”. For some it can be a materialistic thing as a car or a cellphone. Others are boyfriends or girlfriends that recently broken up. But for some, it can be something much more than that. Something that is more personal to them. To others it can be a limb that was lost from war, an accident
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INTRO: •Online transaction processing (OLTP) gathering and processing information and updating existing information to reflect the processed information * —Supports operational processing * —Sales orders, accounts receivable, etc * —Supported by operational databases & DBMSs * •Online analytical processing (OLAP) manipulation of information to support decision making * —Helps build business intelligence * —Supported by data warehouses and data-mining tools RELATIONAL
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The career that I’m going into is computer science. It all started when I was 14 years old, I won an Jack Lease’s award that inspired my interested me in computers because I got an IBM desk top and an scholarships that’s why I love working with computers. Computer science is a growing career field with good pay and fun, but you need to go to college, now about programs, hardware and have plenty of time to put into computers. Computer science is a growing career field because every day there
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dreamed of a future that held flying cars, robots, and a multitude of other fantastical life improvements. One of these ideas was Artificial Intelligence. To some Artificial intelligence is a topic reserved for science fiction and the future but the reality of it is that we are closer than ever to true silicone based life. For a computer program to be considered artificial intelligence it must first past the Turning Test. “The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing in his seminal 1950 paper "Computing
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In Management of Environmental Quality, An International Journal vol.15, no.3, pp.238-249, 2004. Emerald Publishers. An agent-based intelligent environmental monitoring system Ioannis N. Athanasiadis and Pericles A. Mitkas ABSTRACT Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on- line decision- making. Two areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we present a multi-agent system for monitoring and assessing air-quality attributes, which uses data coming
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Artificial Intelligence 1. Explain how Intelligent Agents influence the development of applications or Software. The Intelligent Agents are used in the creation of machines (hardware / software) to display intelligent behavior. Such systems can be simply personal computers; or may be robots. To perform tasks that if a human's conduct, require hard work and a high level of concentration and intelligence. 2. Identify and explain as a model of software engineering for distributed systems using
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Chapter 9 Using Past History Explicitly as Knowledge: Case-Based Reasoning Systems Becerra-Fernandez, et al. -- Knowledge Management 1/e -- © 2004 Prentice Hall Additional material © 2008 Dekai Wu Chapter Objectives • Introduce the student to the concept of using explicit historical occurrences to solve current problems. Explained in the context of rule-based systems that also use past experience to solve current problems • Introduce case-based reasoning. • Introduce how case-based
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