Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What is AI
▪ the science of making intelligent machines
o Machines
o Intelligence
▪ What is intelligence?
What is Intelligence (Natural)
▪ the ability to make good decisions
▪ the ability to learn
▪ the ability to act rationally
▪ the ability to act like humans
Why needed
▪ to reduce human labour and mistakes
▪ to make decisions even better than humans
▪ to solve problems which are very difficult
▪ to make sense of TBs of available information
Some Achievements
Some examples
▪ Deep Blue
o chess playing program
o developed by IBM
o defeated world chess
champion Garry Kasparov in
1997 under standard chess
rules
o Game Over: Kasparov and
the machine - Documentary
Some examples
▪ EQP (EQuation Prover)
o automated theorem prover
o solved Robbins conjecture (a mathematical proof)
o unsolved for decades
Some examples
▪ Watson
o an question answering
computer
o developed by IBM
o won quiz show Jeopardy
o played against former
winners.
Some examples
▪ Autonomous driving
Some examples
▪ MYCIN (An expert system)
o identify bacteria causing severe infections
o diagnose of blood clotting diseases
o provide recommendations
o performed better than the experts of the domain
under same criteria.
Challenges
▪ Vast possible choices (Deep Blue)
▪ Thousands of formulae with underlying assumptions (EQP)
▪ Understanding Natural language and process humongous
data (Watson).
▪ Understanding physical objects in real time (Autonomous
driving)
▪ Computational speed.
Applications
▪ Gaming
▪ Natural Language Processing
▪ Expert Systems
▪ Vision Systems
▪ Speech Recognition
▪ Handwriting Recognition
▪ Robotics