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Tomorrow’s Technology
and You
Chapter 15
Artificial
Intelligence
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Slide 1
Chapter 15
Objectives
Define artificial intelligence and discuss its
most common applications.
Explore Implications & Ethical Questions
relating to AI
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Slide 2
What Is Artificial Intelligence? (pp 552-556)
“…when computers do the things that make people
seem intelligent.”
who gave us this definition? when? what is wrong with it?
“…the study of how to make computers do things at
which, at the moment, people are better.”
This definition has problems too – what are they?
Is there a better definition?
Pros, and cons of approaches to AI?
simulation
‘brute force’ searching
machine learning
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AI Applications
Machine Translation (pp 556-557)
what are ‘parsing programs’? How well do they
work?
what method is used today? Where on the Web?
Expert Systems (p 558-564)
Examples? Benefits? Possible problems?
OCR (p 565-566)
uses? limitations?
Voice Input and output (p 566-569)
uses? limitations? Possible problems?
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AI – Implications & Ethical Questions
(pp 570-575)
What are the consequences of the growing use of ‘steel-collar’
workers?
What results can come from making a machine (eg ELIZA)
appear human?
Is this likely to be an increasing problem?
MEMS and nanomachines
how much is possible today?
future possibilities? possible problems?
“Human vs machine”
What is your view of the answer to the questions on p 575?
Do you believe that ‘humanity urgently needs to begin preparing’ for
singularity? If so, how? If not, why not?
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