An Attempt to build models of ourselves

Artificial Intelligence

Submitted By:
Vikas Mahajan
RM6901 B44
Today we’ ll discuss:
 Artificial intelligence
 Brief history of AI
 Goals of AI
 How does Artificial Intelligence work?
 Uses of AI
 Who is smarter- man or machine?
 Cool Current projects in AI
What is Artificial Intelligence?
 Various definitions:
◦ Building intelligent entities.
◦ Getting computers to do tasks which require
human intelligence.
 Simple things turn out to be the hardest to automate:

◦ Recognising a face.
◦ Navigating a busy street.
◦ Understanding what someone says.
◦ All tasks require reasoning on knowledge.
A brief history of AI
 1943: McCulloch and Pitts proposed a model of
artificial neurons
 1956: Minsky and Edmonds build first neural

network computer, the SNARC

 John Mc Carthy – Father of Artificial Intelligence

Goals in AI
 To build systems that exhibit intelligent behaviour

 To understand intelligence in order to model it

How does Artificial Intelligence work?

 Planning
 Pattern Recognition
 Ontology
 Robotics
 Artificial Life
 Epistemology
 Uses of AI
 Human Illnesses/Failing
o
The Lame shall Walk
o
To hear again
o
To see again

Can we connect machines to the brain and allow the

blind to see, the deaf to hear, and the paralyzed to
walk?
 Uses of AI
 Entertainment
o
Robots in Sports
o
Intelligent Games
o
Toys
Aibo

How is AI being used for fun?

 Uses of AI
 Science
o
Satellites and Weather Predictions
o
AI goes to war

 Art
o
Music and Drawing
o
Poetry
Man vs. Machine
 Machine
o Performs precisely
defined tasks with
speed and accuracy
o Not gifted with
common sense

 Man
o Capable of understanding and reasoning
o Not gifted with complex computations
Cool things AI is doing now:
Telephone
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Thank you