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Notes |
Topics |
Links |
Readings/Papers |
What's due? |
Th 8 Sep |
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Goals of course
Mechanics of course
Topics overview
How to use the aiblog |
History of AI |
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Tu 13 Sep |
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Turing Test |
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Reading [1]: Turing |
Question on R[1] |
Th 15 Sep |
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Captchas
Loebner Prize
Paper1 & Writing
Chinese Room |
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Reaction |
Sun 18 Sep |
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Paper 1: 2-page paper (Turing Test) |
Tu 20 Sep |
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Searle's Chinese Room Argument
Game Programs
Game Trees |
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Readings [2]: Searle |
Question on R[2] |
Th 22 Sep |
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Game Trees
Evaluation Functions
Minimax Strategy
Deep Blue
Chinook |
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Tu 27 Sep |
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Dennett; Dewdney
Minimax algorithm
α - β prunning algorithm |
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Readings [3]: Games |
Question on R[3] |
Th 29 Sep |
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Search
Writing: Paragraphs, thesis
Paper 2 |
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Reaction/writing: Searle; Games
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Sa 1 Oct |
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Peer Commenting |
Sun 2 Oct |
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Paper2: Draft of 2-page paper (Chinese Room; or Games) |
Tu 4 Oct |
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Paper2 Remarks
NLP: Natural Language Understanding
Ambiguity |
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Paper2: Returned to you |
Th 6 Oct |
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Lenat talk
Cyc Intro |
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Fr 7 Oct |
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Paper2: Revised resubmitted
See Moodle for Anonymous A paper |
Tu 11 Oct |
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Fall Break |
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Th 13 Oct |
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Lenat reading
Cyc |
Lenat reading: searchable PDF |
Reading[4a]: Lenat on Hal |
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Tu 18 Oct |
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Watson reading
Jeopardy |
Watson reading on Web |
Reading[4d]: Watson |
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Th 20 Oct |
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Machine Reading
Writing sentences |
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Reaction/writing: Language |
Sa 22 Oct |
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Peer Commenting |
Sun 23 Oct |
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Paper3: 3-page paper (Language)
See Moodle for Anonymous A paper |
Tu 25 Oct |
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Speech Recognition
Speech Synthesis
OCR |
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Th 27 Oct |
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Paper3 Remarks
Brain neurons
Neural Networks |
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Tu 1 Nov |
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Genetic Algorithms
Biomorphs |
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Th 3 Nov |
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NN reading
Scientific Discoveries
GP: Blackjack |
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Reading[5z]: Neural Nets |
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Tu 8 Nov |
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Boden on Creativity
Cohen's Aaron
Other examples |
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Reading [6e]: Creativity |
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Th 10 Nov |
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Creativity in Music
David Cope |
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Sun 13 Nov |
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Paper4: Draft of 3-page paper (Learning, Discovery, Creativity) |
Tu 15 Nov |
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Good paragraphs
Bad sentences
Braitenberg Vehicles
Robo Soccer! |
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Paper4: Returned to you |
Th 17 Nov |
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Rodney Brooks: Cog, Kismet, etc.
Roomba
Insectoid Robots
Boston Dynamics Big Dog |
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Sa 19 Nov |
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Paper4: Revised resubmitted |
Tu 22 Nov |
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Brooks reading
A.I. by Kubrick/Spielberg
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Reading [7a]: I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot |
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Th 24 Nov |
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Thanksgiving |
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Tu 29 Nov |
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Darpa Grand Challenges:
2004,2005,2007
Google car |
Stanley: 2005 Winner (journal article PDF) |
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Th 1 Dec |
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Us as Them: Discussion
Prosthetics |
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Reading [8b]: Us as Them |
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Tu 6 Dec |
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Prosthetics
Brain-Machine Interface |
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Th 8 Dec |
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Singularity
Paper5 start |
Ray Kurzweil Interview |
Readings [10]: The Singularity |
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Sun 11 Dec |
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Paper5: Draft of 5-page paper (Robotics) |
Tu 13 Dec |
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Paper 5
review
Labor Implications
Final Thoughts |
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Paper5: Returned to you |
Th 15 Dec |
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Clinton: Women in Public Service (D.C.)
SaveTheDate.pdf |
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16-18 Dec |
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Reading Period |
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19-22 Dec |
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Exams |
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Th 22 Dec |
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Paper5: Revised resubmitted |
