1.1. What is Artificial Intelligence and Introduction to Rational Agents.

This is the first submodule of module 1 and covers the following topics:

Overview of the Module, Overview of artificial intelligence, What is artificial intelligence (AI)? History of AI and related fields. Introduction to rational agents. Taxonomy of agents. Agents with limited memory; rational agents; agents with goals; utility-driven Agents.

Course Material

Introductory Material

Overview of the Module (slides available here / video given at the first interactive session)
Introduction to AI (recorded lecture with A. Loutfi)

Course Book Reference

Chapters 1 and 2 from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Russell and Norvig.

Lectures related to the Course Book Chapter 1 and 2.

Lecture - Introduction to AI (start from 23:09) (UC Berkley)
Alternative Lectures - Sean Holden's Lecture Series - Introduction to AI , Agents

Additional Reading Material for those who know the chapters already

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Seminal paper by Alan Turing).
Why people think computers can't (Marvin Minsky)
Building Machines that Learn and Think like people (Brenden M. Lake, Tomer D. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman)