CPS 721 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Winter 2001

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An online AI course from the UK.

Artificial Intelligence II by David Marshall
A useful (and free !!) AI textbook. It is a second level course which goes into things more deeply than cps721 does. It is also more traditional than cps721. cps721 includes a lot more 'soft computing'.

Papers

What is Knowledge Representation?

Software

The OTTER Home Page

OTTER Executables

Kohonen Network

Soft Computing on the Web.

• A Course on Neural Networks
• A Course on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computing

Course Topics

• What is AI ?
• What is Intelligence?
  • A Famous Controversy
  • PET scans of the brain
  • A Dictionary's Definition - Merriam-Webster
  • Hofstadter's descriptive summary of intelligence
  • IQ tests: Quantifying Intelligence
  • The smartest human who ever lived? (What is your guess?)
  • Was this man intelligent?
  • Summary
  • The Turing Test
    • Introductory Course Notes
    • Turing References
    • An Excerpt from Turing's paper
    • The Chinese Room Thought Experiment
    • Some concluding comments
  • What you should know
• Symbolic AI
  • The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis
  • Knowledge Representation (KR)
    • First Order Logic (FOL) as a representation language
      • As a KR language for a Physical Symbol System
      • Reasoning in FOL
      • The Otter Theorem Prover
        • Otter & Knowledge Representation
        • Reasoning
          • UR_resolution
          • sos and usable
        • Some Otter Examples
        • The Otter Manual
    • The Five Roles of Knowledge Representation
      • The What is Knowledge Representation? Paper (local)
      • Some highlights from the paper
        • KR as a Surrogate
        • KR as a set of Ontological Commitments
        • KR as a Fragmentary Theory of Intelligent Reasoning
        • KR as a Medium for Efficient Computation
        • KR as a Medium of Human Expression
  • Some other well known KR schemes (survey)
    • Production Systems
    • Semantic Nets, Frames and Objects
      • Semantic Networks in general
      • Frames and Objects
  • Agents
    • Types of agent
    • Search and planning
      • State-Space graphs
      • Implicit state spaces
      • Uninformed search
        • Breadth first search
        • Depth first search
      • Heuristic Search
        • Best first search
        • A general graph searching algorithm
        • A*
• Neural Networks
  • The human brain - images
  • Natural Neurons
  • The artificial Neuron (AN)
  • Supervised Learning
    • Two layer Feed Forward networks
    • Multiple Layer Feed Forward Networks
    • The Nets 3.0 Neural Network System
  • Unsupervised Learning
    • Introduction
    • A Basic Competitive Network
    • Kohonen's Self Organizing Map (SOM)
  • A Commercial Product Using Neural Nets
• Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Evolution as search and optimization
  • The Genetic Algorithm
    • Introduction
    • Tthe Genetic Algorithm by Marek Obitko
    • Summary: a flow diagram for the GA
• Artificial Life
  • What is Life?
  • Cellular Automata
  • The Game of Life
  • Swarms, Flocks and Ants
  • Swarm Optimization
  • Artificial Societies