Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

1. What is AI ?

   • according to John Mc Carthy
     • is "The science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs".

2. Philosophy

   • "Can a machine think and believe as humans do?"

3. Goals

   • to create expert system
   • to implement human intelligence in machines

4. What contributes to AI ?

   • computer science
   • psychology
   • neuron science
   • biology
   • maths
   • sociology
   • philosophy

5. Programming

   • with AI
     • answer the generic question meant to solve
     • absorb new modifications
     • quick and easy modifications
   • without AI
     • answer the specific question meant to solve
     • modifications lead to change in its structure
     • modification is not quick and easy

6. Applications of AI

   • gaming
   • natural language processing
   • expert systems
   • vision systems
   • speech recognition
   • handwriting recognition
   • intelligent robots

7. Research areas of AI

   • expert system
   • neural networks
   • robotics
   • fuzzy logic
   • natural language processing

8. Tasks classification of AI

   • formal tasks
     • maths
     • games
   • expert tasks
     • financial analysis
     • engineering
     • medical diagnosis
     • scientific analysis
   • mundane tasks
     • perception
     • common sense
     • reasoning
     • natural language processing