Chap 10 Artificial Intelligence
• AI as a terminology, appeared in 1956
• Machines mimic behavior of humans
– Want machines that communicate with
surroundings via human sensory means &
act intelligently without human intervention
• Goal machines that “understand”
– Perception
– Reasoning
Chap 10 Artificial Intelligence
• Intelligence and Machines
• Understanding Images
• Reasoning
Intelligence and Machines
Points of view
• Computer scientist performance oriented
goal: program’s performance
• Psychologist simulation oriented
goal: understand human intelligence
Intelligence? Room A
Interrogator
o the ability to win
o the ability to be humanlike keyboard
Turning Test Room B
Human Computer
Intelligence and Machines
The Loebner Prize • A contest to see if a
computer program can
pass a Turing Test
• Group of experts questions
the several computer
entrants
• /Pri
zef/loebner-prize.html
• Since 1990, at Cambridge
Center for Behavioral
Studies
Intelligence and Machines
DOCTOR / ELIZA – “psychologist”
Joseph Weizenbaum is Professor of LCS, MIT. In 1966, he published a
program called ELIZA which demonstrated natural language processing by
engaging humans int