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What is AI?
A brief history
The state of the art
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What is AI?
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AI SYSTEM
CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
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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
Doesnt necessarily involve thinkinge.g., blinking reflexbut
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
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Potted history of AI
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