Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2004 - 2005
AI Definitions
Some definitions of artificial intelligence, organized into categories
(from Russell/Norvig text)
- Thinking
- Systems that think like humans
- cognitive modeling
- "get inside" the workings of human minds
- Systems that think rationally
- The "laws of thought" approach
- codifying "right thinking", reasoning processes
- rules of logic
- Acting
- Systems that act like humans
- Turing test
- natural language processing - communicating successfully in English
- knowledge representation - stores what it knows or hears
- automated reasoning - using stored information to answer questions,
draw new conclusions
- machine learning - adapt to new circumstances,
detect and extrapolate patterns
- computer vision - perceiving objects
- robotics - manipulate objects, move about
- Systems that act rationally
- rational agents
- agents that act, operate under autonomous control,
- perceive their environment
- persist over a prolonged period of time
- adapt to change, taking on another's goal
- achieve the best or best expected outcome under uncertainty