Preliminaries

• Instructors

  • Me (Professor)
  • Jon Juett (GSI)
  • Rahul Jha (GSI)
  • Rui Zhang (IA)

• Questionare!

Course Info

Objective: Introduce some major AI ideas and techniques.

Coursework

• HW 60%
• exams 40% (2/26, 4/28)

What is AI?

Goodguy? Badguys?

• Terminator
• R2/D2
• western world
• Alliens
• Skynet

• 2001: a space odyssey

• One popular sci-fi theme: Evil AI

• Q: why do some people fear intelligent computers might subjugate humans?

• Q: to what extent is this fear warranted?

• limbo

• The power of AI system increasing

• pretty involved decisions but not difficult decisions / judgement ...?

• not Q: Can a machine think? what is the thinking process?

  • Can the submarine swim? depends on the definition
  • Can an airplane fly?