Artificial Intelligence
Adnan Haider
Background
• Developing hardware & software capable of intelligent thinking.
• John McCarthy in 1955
• the science and engineering of making intelligent machines
History
• AI appeared in Greek myths
• Founded in 1956 at Dartmouth College
• 1990s and early 2000s great success for AI
• Data Mining and Medical Diagnosis
• Machine Learning
• IBM Watson Jeopardy
Problems for Society
• How to apply AI?
• To what degree?
• Take control over humans?
• The development of full artificial intelligence could spell
the end of the human race." -Stephen Hawking
• Human labor
• Use cases:
• Security, NLP, Climate, etc
Solutions to problems
• Make AI fundamentally on humanity’s side
• Prohibit AI from entering different markets
Solutions to problems (continued)
• Federally regulated AI development
• Government infiltration of private sector
Future of problems
• How to make computers super intelligent?
• Machine Learning
• Deep neural networks
• Google/Facebook
• Mere computation vs. actual intelligence
Long ways to go…
Research Sources
• http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_conference
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#CITEREFRussellN
orvig2003
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#CITEREFPooleMa
ckworthGoebel1998
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_control_system