Module - 1 Introduction To Artificial Intelligence
Module - 1 Introduction To Artificial Intelligence
Module - 1 Introduction To Artificial Intelligence
Alan Turing
Does AI have applications?
• Autonomous planning and scheduling of tasks
aboard a spacecraft
• Beating Gary Kasparov in a chess match
• Steering a driver-less car
• Understanding language
• Robotic assistants in surgery
• Monitoring trade in the stock market to see if
insider trading is going on
A rich history
• Philosophy
• Mathematics
• Economics
• Neuroscience
• Psychology
• Control Theory
• John McCarthy- coined the term- 1950’s
Academic Disciplines important to AI
• Philosophy Logic, methods of reasoning, mind as physical
system, foundations of learning, language,
rationality.
• During the 1991 Gulf War, US forces deployed an AI logistics planning and
scheduling program that involved up to 50,000 vehicles, cargo, and people
• It can choose to move left ,move right , suck up the dirt ,or do
nothing
• One very simple agent function is the following :if the current
square is dirty ,then suck :otherwise ,move to the other square
Figure 2.4 PEAS description of the task environment for an automated taxi.
• First, what is the performance measure to which we would
like our automated driver to aspire?