1.1 What is Artificial Intelligence and Introduction to Rational Agents (Chapter 1 and 2)
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 Länkar till en extern sida. (recorded lecture with A. Loutfi)
Course Book Reference
- Chapters 1 and 2 from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach Länkar till en extern sida., Russell and Norvig.
Lectures related to the Course Book Chapter 1 and 2.
- Lecture - Introduction to AI (start from 23:09) (UC Berkley) Länkar till en extern sida.
- Alternative Lectures - Sean Holden's Lecture Series - Introduction to AI Länkar till en extern sida. , Agents Länkar till en extern sida.
Additional Reading Material for those who know the chapters already
- Computing Machinery and Intelligence Länkar till en extern sida. (Seminal paper by Alan Turing).
- Why people think computers can't Länkar till en extern sida. (Marvin Minsky)
- Building Machines that Learn and Think like people Länkar till en extern sida. (Brenden M. Lake, Tomer D. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman)