CSSE 413: Day 1

Outline

• Definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Class exercise on intelligence and where to find it.
• Introduction to the course
• AI: Then and now (mostly then)
  • Alpha, the robot.
  • Another early robot
  • Giving life to a robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis
• The AI Landscape

Background Materials

• A (Very) Brief History of Artificial Intelligence by Bruce G. Buchanan.

Assignments

• Day 2: Read the materials on breadth-first search
• Day 2: Read the materials on depth-first search
• Day 3, BC: Review Turing's article on Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Please use the following review guidelines and submit your review to the appropriate drop box on Angel. We will discuss this article in class on Monday.