What is Artificial Intelligence ?? State of the art AI .
The part of computer science concerned with designing intelligent computer systems, that is, systems that exhibit the characteristics we associate with intelligence in human behavior - understanding language, learning, reasoning, solving problems, etc.
Dean, Allen, and Aloimonos: the design and study of the computer
programs that behave intelligently.
Russell and Norvig: the study of [rational] agents that exist in an environment and perceive and act.
Yes, but what is intelligence?
Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world. Varying kinds and degrees of intelligence occur in people, many animals and some machines.
State of the art
Game Playing:
Deep Blue defeated the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
Robotics vehicles:
–2005 Standford robot won DARPA Grand Challenge driving autonomously 131 miles along the unrehearsed desert trail
–Staneley (Thrun 2006). No hands across America (driving autonomously 98% of the time from Pittsburgh to San Diego
–2007 CMU team won DARPA Urban Challenge driving autonomously 55 miles in a city while adhering to traffic laws and hazards
Autonomous planning and scheduling:
–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
–NASA's onboard autonomous planning program controlled the scheduling of operations for a spacecraft
Speech recognition
•DARPA grand challenge 2003-2005, Robocup
Machine translation
Natural language processing:
Watson won Jeopardy (Natural language processing), IBM 2011. iPhone Siri.