The Analytical Engine Online: Artificial Intelligence

By definition, Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs are intended to give the appearance of human behavior. Here, we provide you with two programs that fit this description: a poetry generator and an expert system. You will use both programs to see how closely human behavior can be approximated by a machine.

Lab 9.1: Natural Intelligence

Lab 9.2: Haiku To You!

Lab 9.3: Poetic Justice

Lab 9.4: Decisions, Decisions....

Lab 9.5: You're the Expert

Discuss intelligence embodied in a machine, and consider Alan Turing's operational test for machine intelligence
Look at some major directions in Artificial Intelligence research
Experiment with two programs that perform human tasks
Compare the output of some AI programs to human behavior.

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Some fifty years after Alan Turing¹ first proposed the Imitation Game , now known as the Turing Test², as an operational test of computer intelligence, Artificial Intelligence³ (AI) is a central part of the computer science landscape. The phrase means different things to different people, and each definition illuminates a slightly different perspective of the field. In the text portion of this module, we explore some of these perspectives and their historical bases, as well as the primary areas of AI research.
¹pp. 13, 271, 275, 296, 298, 321
²pp. 298–299
³pp. 295, 299, 303

Few who have read Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, or have seen the film version, would deny that the HAL 9000 computer described therein has the skills and attributes that would allow him to conform to any contemporary definition of AI. As such, HAL serves both as a point of departure for discussing many of the issues currently being investigated by AI researchers, and as the metaphor for this module.

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Some fifty years after Alan Turing¹ first proposed the Imitation Game , now known as the Turing Test², as an operational test of computer intelligence, Artificial Intelligence³ (AI) is a central part of the computer science landscape. The phrase means different things to different people, and each definition illuminates a slightly different perspective of the field. In the text portion of this module, we explore some of these perspectives and their historical bases, as well as the primary areas of AI research.	¹pp. 13, 271, 275, 296, 298, 321 ²pp. 298–299 ³pp. 295, 299, 303
Few who have read Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, or have seen the film version, would deny that the HAL 9000 computer described therein has the skills and attributes that would allow him to conform to any contemporary definition of AI. As such, HAL serves both as a point of departure for discussing many of the issues currently being investigated by AI researchers, and as the metaphor for this module.

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