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Chapter1
Main points
A.I. Definitions:
1- System Acts like human
- The tuning-test approach
o Provides a satisfactory operational definition of intelligence
o The ability to achieve human-level performance in all tasks;
sufficient to fool an interrogator (i.e. end user)
o The computer needs to process the following:
▪ Natural language processing
• To enable the system to communicate
successfully in human languages
▪ Knowledge representation
• To store information provided before or during
the interrogation
▪ Automated reasoning
• To use the stored information to answer
questions and to draw new conclusions
▪ Machine learning
• To adapt to new circumstances and to detect and
extrapolate patterns
2- System thinks as human
- The cognitive-modelling approach
o Need to get inside the actual workings of human minds.
▪ Two ways:
• Introspection
o Try to catch our thoughts as they go by
• Psychological experiments
o Cognitive Science
▪ Bring together computer models from A.I. and
experimental techniques from psychology
3- System think rationally
- The laws of thought approach
o To govern the operation of the mind and initiate the field of
logic
▪ Example:
Fact1: “Socrates is a man”
Fact2: “All men are mortal”
Conclusion: “Socrates is mortal”
o Two main obstacles to this approach:
▪ It is not easy to take informal knowledge and state it in
the formal terms.
• Particularly when the knowledge is less than
100% certain.
▪ There is a big difference between being able to solve a
problem in principle and doing so in practice.
4- System acts rationally
- The rational-agent approach
o Acting so as to achieve one’s goals, given one’s beliefs
▪ Example:
B1: mouse is an object
B2: mouse is dangerous
B3: mouse is moving fast
B4: mouse has four legs
If the object is a mouse, fire the cat
- Agent: something that perceives and acts in general
A.I. in general:
The study of agents that exist in an environment and perceives and act
accordingly.

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