What is AI?

Four possible definitions:
think like humans think rationally
act like humans act rationally

  • Acting humanly

    • Alan Turing: Can machine think?

  • An audacious proposal!

    • What were computers like in 1950?

The Imitation Game (Acting Humanly)

  • The Turing test
  • Tonight!!

  • Prof. Kevin Compton

  • Is it a reasonable test of intelligence?

  • Try to convince the interrogator.

    • SIRI
    • ELIZA, ALICE, and offshoots
    • AARON: Cybernetic artist
    • KISMET: Robotic faces, smile, sad...

  • "Being There" 《無為而治》

Cognitive science (Thinking Humanly)

  • Create computational embodiment of human-like cognition
  • "Knowledge" or "circuits"

  • How to validate?

  • GPS example

  • HCI example
  • NN exmaple (Neural Networks)

Laws of thought (Thinking Rationaly)

  • Leibniz: Universal characteristic
  • Modern Logic: Notation and rules of derivation of thoughts
  • Problems: Tractability issues

Doing the right thing (Acting Rationally)

  • Goal

  • Subsumes thinking rationally

    Challenges

  • Recognition

  • Reasoning
  • (Inter)Action
    • EECS 442, 542: Machine Vision
    • EECS 445: I2ML
    • EECS 545: ML
    • EECS 492: I2AI
    • EECS 592, 543: Advanced AI, knowledge-based systems
    • EECS 467, 567, 568: Robotics
    • EECS 595: NLP

Implications

Within AI: New York Times

Study to Examine Effects of Artificial Intelligence

  • Has it been good for society?