Registration / Opening Welcome / Course Introduction
TEACHERS: Phil Desjardins and Victor Gajardo
TECHNICIANS: Fan Wu
INTRODUCTION: What is Artificial Intelligence?
What is Artificial Intelligence?
AI is a computer operation and system that exhibits characteristics we associate with intelligent human behaviour.
¨ Early History of Computation: Outperforming humans in purely mechanical mental activities such as numerical computation; information storage; and repetitive operations
¨ Machine Learning: Mimicking Human Behaviour and Intelligence
¨ How humans learn and behave
¨ Vision / Language / Expert Systems: Edge detection / Voice recognition / IF-Then Rules and Heuristics (Rules of Thumb)
¨ AI’s Technological Breakthroughs (LOGIC)
¨ The Capabilities and Achievements of AI Today