CS 370 - Artificial Intelligence

Course Book
Required textbook:
S. Russell and P. Norvig. Artificial
Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

Book Website
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu

An older version of the book is uploaded on

LMS
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OHTs 30%
Final 50%
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 Artificial Intelligence is intelligence
exhibited by machines, rather than humans
or other animals (natural intelligence)

Science of making machines that can

replicate human reasoning and intelligent
behavior using computational methods

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 What is an Intelligent Agent?

Anything that can be viewed

as perceiving its
environment through
sensors and acting upon
that environment through
its effectors to maximize
progress towards its goals.
 Intelligent Agents

perception

Environment
Intelligent
Agent

actions

Perception Action Cycle

 Intelligent Agents
AI: How to map sensor
input to Actuators?

perception

Environment
Intelligent
Agent

actions

Perception Action Cycle

 AI in Robotics
Self Driving Cars
AI in Robotics
 AI in Finance
Fraud Detection in e-commerce
Banking Chatbots
Algorithmic trading

https://cointelegraph.com/news/3-ways-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-finance-industry
 AI in Games
AlphaGo: AlphaGo is the first computer program
developed by Google DeepMind to defeat the
strongest Go player in history.
AI in Video Games: In video games, artificial
intelligence is used to generate responsive or
intelligent behaviors primarily in non-player
characters (NPCs), similar to human-like intelligence
 AI in Medicines
Artificial Intelligence will Redesign Healthcare
http://medicalfuturist.com/artificial-intelligence-
will-redesign-healthcare/
AI in Popular Culture
 Environment Types

Characteristics
Fully versus Partially observable
Deterministic versus nondeterministic
Discrete versus continuous
Benign versus Adversarial
 Example

Environment Fully Deterministic Discrete Benign

Observable
Chess
Self driving car
Chess
 Example

Environment Fully Deterministic Discrete Benign

Observable
Chess yes yes Yes No
Self driving car No No No Yes
Ludo Yes No Yes No
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 Example:
Google Language Translation Agent
Can translate about 80 languages to one
another
How it does that?
By looking at examples. (Machine learning)
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