Transcript What is AI?

Intelligent Systems
主講人:虞台文
Content
 What
is AI?
 Is a Machine Intelligent?
 History of AI
Intelligent Systems
What is AI?
What is AI?
There is
no agreed definition of the term
artificial intelligence. However, there are
various definitions that have been proposed.
Some will be considered below.
What is AI?
American
Association for
Artificial
Intelligence
The scientific understanding of the mechanisms
underlying thought and intelligent behavior and
their embodiment in machines.
What is AI?
American
Association for
Artificial
Intelligence
The scientific understanding of the mechanisms
underlying thought and intelligent behavior and
their embodiment in machines.
What is AI?
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AI is a study in which computer systems are made that think like human
beings. Haugeland, 1985 & Bellman, 1978.
AI is a study in which computer systems are made that act like people. AI is
the art of creating computers that perform functions that require
intelligence when performed by people. Kurzweil, 1990.
AI is the study of how to make computers do things which at the moment
people are better at. Rich & Knight, 1991
AI is a study in which computers that rationally think are made. Charniac &
McDermott, 1985.
AI is the study of computations that make it possible to perceive, reason and
act. Winston, 1992.
AI is the study in which systems that rationally act are made. AI is
considered to be a study that seeks to explain and emulate intelligent
behaviour in terms of computational processes. Schalkeoff, 1990.
AI is considered to be a branch of computer science that is concerned with
the automation of intelligent behavior. Luger & Stubblefield, 1993.
What is AI?
The exciting new effort to
make computers thinks …
machine with minds, in the
full and literal sense”
(Haugeland 1985)
“The study of mental
faculties through the use of
computational models”
(Charniak et al. 1985)
“The art of creating
machines that perform
functions that require
intelligence when performed
by people” (Kurzweil, 1990)
A field of study that seeks
to explain and emulate
intelligent behavior in terms
of computational processes”
(Schalkol, 1990)
What is AI?
The exciting new effort to
make computers thinks …
Systems with
that think
like
machine
minds,
inhumans
the
full and literal sense”
(Haugeland 1985)
“The study of mental
faculties through the use of
Systems that models”
think rationally
computational
(Charniak et al. 1985)
“The art of creating
machines that perform
Systems that
like humans
functions
thatact
require
intelligence when performed
by people” (Kurzweil, 1990)
A field of study that seeks
to explain and emulate
Systems behavior
that act rationally
intelligent
in terms
of computational processes”
(Schalkol, 1990)
Intelligent Systems
Is a Machine
Intelligent?
Weak and Strong AI
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Weak AI
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Computers can be programmed to act as if they
were intelligent (as if they were thinking)
Strong AI
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Computers can be programmed to think (i.e.
they really are thinking)
Turing Test
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How can we evaluate intelligence?
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Turing [1950] a machine can be deemed
intelligent when its responses to interrogation
by a human are indistinguishable from those of
a human being.
Interrogator
Turing Test
Turing thought that any machine which passes the
test should be considered intelligent, or more
precisely, should be considered to 'think'.
Interrogator
Turing Test
Turing thought that any machine which passes the
test should be considered intelligent, or more
precisely, should be considered to 'think'.
Interrogator
Turing Test
Turing Test
Chinese Room Argument
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Devised by John Searle
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An argument against the
possibility of true
artificial intelligence.
Chinese Room Argument
Chinese Room Argument
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Computer Programs are
formal (syntactic)
Human minds have mental
contents (semantics)
Chinese Room Argument
“The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is
simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds
are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, they have
content.” - John Searle
Intelligent Systems
History of AI
History of AI
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1943 McCulloch & Pitts: Boolean circuit model of brain
1950 Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
1950s Early AI programs, including Samuel’s checkers (draughts)
program
Newell & Simon’s Logic Theorist, Gelernter’s Geometry Engine
1956 Dartmouth meeting: “Artificial Intelligence” adopted
1966–74 AI discovers computational complexity,
Neural network research almost disappears
1969–79 Early development of knowledge-based systems
1980–88 Expert systems industry booms
1988–93 Expert systems industry busts: “AI Winter”
1985–95 Neural networks return to popularity
1988– Resurgence of probabilistic and decision-theoretic methods
Rapid increase in technical depth of mainstream AI,
“Nouvelle AI”: ALife, GAs, soft computing
History of AI