G5AIAI
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Graham Kendall
Course Introduction
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• You are a caveman (or woman)
• I travel back in time and bring you a
Pentium IV PC and show you some of the
things it is capable of doing.
• Question : Would you, as a caveman,
consider the computer to be intelligent?
• Hands up if you think the computer is
intelligent?
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• Now we are in the present day
• I show you the same Pentium III PC and
show you some of the things it is capable of
doing.
• Question : Would you, as a computer
science student, consider the computer to
be intelligent?
• Hands up if you now think the computer is
intelligent?
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• We are still in the present day, but we are at
the end of this lecture course.
• Just before I leave the final lecture, I peel
away my face and reveal I am an android.
As an android I have just delivered a 24
hour lecture course and answered all your
questions.
• Question : Would you, as a computer
science student, consider me to be
intelligent?
• Hands up if you think I am intelligent?
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Course Introduction
• Course
– Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Lecturer
– Graham Kendall
– GXK@CS.NOTT.AC.UK
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Course Introduction
• Web Page
– http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gxk/courses/g5aiai/
• EMAIL
• Second / Third Year Projects
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Course Context
G5AIAI
Introduction to AI
G5BAIM
Artificial
Intelligence
Methods
G5BAIP Artificial
Intelligence
Programming
D53DIA Designing Intelligent
Agents
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Who Can Attend? (This year)
• Introduction to AI
– First/Second Year Option
• Artificial Intelligence Methods
– Second/Third Year Option
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Course Introduction
• Last Years Course
– Good Points
• Handouts/Notes
• Summary of Each Lecture
• Willingness to Answer Questions
– Bad Points
• Speak Properly (Louder, Clearer, Faster, Slower)
• Did Not Summarise Lectures
• More Coursework Needed
• Feedback on Coursework Needed
• Course content was too much / too little
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Course Introduction
• Lectures
– 15 (ish)
• Lecture Times and Locations
– Monday 13:00 (CTF-LT2)
– Friday 11:00 (CTF-LT3)
• Assessment
– 25% Coursework
– 75% examination (2 hours)
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Aims of the Course
• Define what we mean by AI (or at least give us
a working definition for this course)
• Write “AI” programs that
– Explore search spaces using both blind and heuristic
search techniques
– Implement Neural Networks (perceptron)
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Aims of the Course
• This is very much a practical course.
Although we will touch upon the
philosophical issues we will not dwell on
this area of AI.
• This course is more concerned with writing
useful AI programs than discussing if a
computer is intelligent or not.
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Textbooks
• Artificial Intelligence – A Modern
Approach (AIMA) (Russell/Norvig)
Much of the material for this course is
from this book. If you are going to buy a
book, then get this one.
(Web site has an amazon link)
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Textbooks
• Artificial Intelligence (Rich/Knight)
– This used to be the “standard” AI text book but AIMA
is now taking its place – in my view
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Textbooks
• Artificial Intelligence (Winston)
– As for Rich/Knight
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Textbooks
• Artificial intelligence : Structure and
Strategies for Complex Problem Solving
(Luger/Stubblefield)
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Textbooks
• Computational Intelligence
(Poole/Mackworth/Goebel)
– As good as AIMA but came out later
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Useful Reading
• The Essence of Artificial Intelligence
(Cawsey)
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Useful Reading
• Seven Methods for Transforming
Corporate Data into Business Intelligence
(Dahr/Stein)
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Useful Reading
• Artificial Intelligence and Computer
Games (Richard Bartle)
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Useful Reading
• Computer Gamesmanship (David Levy)
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Neural Networks
• The Essence of Neural Networks (Callan)
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Neural Networks
• Neural Network (Davalo)
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Neural Networks
• Fundamentals of Neural networks
(Fausett)
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Proposed Lecture Schedule
• See Web Site
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Coursework Schedule
• Coursework
– Is already available
– It does involve programming
– Closing date is 4th December, but with an
automatic weeks extension!
– No further extensions
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Examinations
• Examination Rubric
– You are expected to answer one of the
two questions from section A and three of
the five questions from section B.
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Are these AI??
Boids
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Course Introduction Finished
Now the hard work starts