COGS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Turing Machine, Turing Test, Computable Function
13 Jan 2017
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Artificial intelligence, or ai: the field that studies the synthesis and analysis of computational agents that act intelligently (not intelligent thought) An agent is something that acts in an environment - it does something. Agents include worms, dogs, thermostats, airplanes, robots, humans, companies, and countries: we judge agents by their actions, an agent acts intelligently when. What it does is appropriate for its circumstances and its goals, it is flexible to changing environments and changing goals, it learns from experience, and it makes appropriate choices given its perceptual and computational limitations. Central scientific goal of ai is to understand the principles that make intelligent behavior possible in natural or artificial systems. Done by: analysis of natural and artificial agents formatting and testing hypothesis about what it takes to construct intelligent agents, designing, building, and experimenting with computational systems that perform tasks commonly viewed as requiring intelligence.
