2 A.I. Introduction History 04 Dec 2018reference Material I - Lec01 - Intro
2 A.I. Introduction History 04 Dec 2018reference Material I - Lec01 - Intro
2 A.I. Introduction History 04 Dec 2018reference Material I - Lec01 - Intro
Today
• Course overview
• What is AI?
• State of the art in AI today
• Topics covered in the course
Who is this course for?
• An introductory survey of AI techniques for
students who have not previously had an
exposure to this subject
• Juniors, seniors, beginning graduate students
• Credit: 3 units
Basic Info
• Instructor: Svetlana Lazebnik (lazebnik@cs.unc.edu)
Office hours: email me
• Class webpage:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~lazebnik/fall10
Course Requirements
• Participation: 20%
• Come to class!
• Ask questions
• Answer questions
• Participate in discussions
• Assignments: 50%
• Written and programming
• Programming assignments: you can use whatever language
you wish. The focus is on problem solving, not specific
programming skills.
• Midterm/final: 30%
• No book, no notes, no calculator, no collaboration
• Not meant to be scary
• Mainly straightforward questions testing comprehension
Academic integrity policy
• Feel free to discuss assignments with each
other, but coding must be done individually
• Thinking humanly
• Acting humanly
• Thinking rationally
• Acting rationally
Thinking humanly
• Cognitive science: the brain as an information
processing machine
• Requires scientific theories of how the brain works
• How to understand cognition as a
computational process?
• Introspection: try to think about how we think
• Predict and test behavior of human subjects
• Image the brain, examine neurological data
• The latter two methodologies are the domains
of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience
Acting humanly
• Turing (1950) "Computing machinery and intelligence"
• The Turing Test
• http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/
• NY Times article
• Trivia demo
• YouTube video
Information agents
• Search engines
• Recommendation systems
• Spam filtering
• Automated helpdesks
• Medical diagnosis systems
• Fraud detection
• Automated trading
Vision
• OCR, handwriting recognition
• Face detection/recognition: many consumer
cameras, Apple iPhoto
• Visual search: Google Goggles
• Vehicle safety systems: Mobileye
Robotics
• Mars rovers
• Autonomous vehicles
• DARPA Grand Challenge
• Autonomous helicopters
• Robot soccer
• RoboCup
• Personal robotics
• Humanoid robots
• Robotic pets
• Personal assistants?
Towel-folding robot
YouTube Video