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Comp 325 Ai Programming: By: James Sigei

COMP 325 is an AI programming course taught by James Sigei. The course aims to introduce students to AI programming concepts and explain how AI functions through different types. Students will learn to explain and solve problems, as well as describe AI chaining. Assessment will be through an exam worth 70% and a CAT worth 30%. The document then discusses what intelligence and AI are, what's involved in AI like perception and learning, common uses of AI, and foundations of AI from various disciplines. It concludes by stating the current state of AI systems in practice and their limitations in handling unconstrained real-world problems.

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Comp 325 Ai Programming: By: James Sigei

COMP 325 is an AI programming course taught by James Sigei. The course aims to introduce students to AI programming concepts and explain how AI functions through different types. Students will learn to explain and solve problems, as well as describe AI chaining. Assessment will be through an exam worth 70% and a CAT worth 30%. The document then discusses what intelligence and AI are, what's involved in AI like perception and learning, common uses of AI, and foundations of AI from various disciplines. It concludes by stating the current state of AI systems in practice and their limitations in handling unconstrained real-world problems.

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COMP 325 AI PROGRAMMING

By: James Sigei


Lecture 1
PURPOSE OF COURSE

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To introduce students to programming concepts
in AI
Expected Learning Outcomes

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To explain how AI functions and its types
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Explain and give solution to a problem in
question
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Describe the AI chaining
Assessment

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Exam 70%
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CAT 30%
What is Intelligence?

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“The capacity to learn and solve problems”
(Websters dictionary)
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The ability to solve novel problems
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The ability to act rationally
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The ability to act like humans
What is AI

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The exciting new effort to make computers think
...machines with minds, in the full literal sense.
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The study of mental faculties through the use of
computational models.
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A field of study that seeks to explain and
emulate intelligent behavior in terms of
computational processes.
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The study of how to make computers do things
at which, at the moment, people are better.•
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It is the science and engineering of making
intelligent machines, especially intelligent
computer programs.
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It is related to the similar task of using
computers to understand human intelligence,
but AI does not have to confine itself to
methods that are biologically observable.
What’s involved in AI

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Ability to interact with the real world
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To perceive, understand, and act
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e.g., speech recognition and understanding and
synthesis
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e.g., image understanding
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e.g., ability to take actions, have an effect
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Reasoning and Planning
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Modeling the external world, given input
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Solving new problems, planning, and making
decisions
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Ability to deal with unexpected problems,
uncertainties
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Learning and Adaptation
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We are continuously learning and adapting
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Our internal models are always being “updated”
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e.g., a baby learning to categorize and
recognize animals
USES OF AI

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Robotics
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Speech recognition
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Autonomous planning and scheduling:
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Game playing
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Spam fighting
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Logistics
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Machine Translation
Foundations of AI
The following disciplines have contributed to the
development of AI
– Philosophy
– Mathematics
– Economics
– Neuroscience
– Psychology
– Computer Engineering
– Control theory and cybernetics
– Linguistics
Philosophy

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Can formal rules be used to draw valid
conclusions?
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How does the mind arise from a physical brain?
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Where does knowledge come from?
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How does knowledge lead to action?
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Logic, methods of reasoning, mind as physical
system, foundations of learning, language,
rationality.
Mathematics

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What are the formal rules to draw valid
conclusions?
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What can be computed?
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How do we reason with uncertain information?
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Formal representation and proof, computation,
(un)decidability, (in)tractability, probability.
Economics

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How should we make decisions so as to
maximize payoff?
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How should we do this when others may not go
along?
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How should we do this when the payoff may be
far in the future?
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Utility, decision theory, rational economic
Neuroscience
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How do brains process information?
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Neurons as information processing units.
Psychology

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How do humans and animals think and act?
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How do people behave, perceive, process
information, represent knowledge.
Computer engineering

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How can we build an efficient computer?
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Building fast computers
Control theory and cybernetics

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How can artifacts operate under their own
control?
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Design systems that maximize an objective
function over time
Linguistics

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How does language relate to thought?
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Knowledge representation, grammar
State of AI Systems in Practice

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Speech synthesis, recognition and
understanding
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very useful for limited vocabulary applications
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unconstrained speech understanding is still too
hard
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Computer Visison
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works for constrained problems (hand-written
zip-codes)
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understanding real-world, natural scenes is still
too hard
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Learning
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adaptive systems are used in many
applications: have their limits
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Planning and Reasoning
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only works for constrained problems: e.g.,
chess
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real-world is too complex for general systems
Reference

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