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Re57: AI, Agents, Problem-solving, Searching, Environments, Games (AIMA4e chpts. 1-6)
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AIMA4e pages 1-207.
Air date: Monday, 21st Nov. 2022, 11:00 PM Eastern/US.
Day 1
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Our nouns for the seven sections of AIMA4e
AIMA4e's noun phrases are in quotes.
* I INTELLIGENCE--"Artificial Intelligence"
* II SOLVING--"Problem-solving"
* III THINKING--"Knowledge, reasoning, and planning"
* IV UNCERTAINTY--"Uncertain knowledge and reasoning"
* V LEARNING--"Machine learning"
* VI INTERACTING--"Communicating, perceiving, and acting"
* VII CONCLUSIONS--"Conclusions"
The Preface: phenomenon, science, definitions, hacks
The phenomenon about which AI scientists and engineers are concerned, per AIMA4e, is `intelligent agents'. It is easy to forget that this phenomenon goes far beyond code and computing.
The science of this phenomenon is called `artificial intelligence'.
Remember, definitions do work, often without our noticing, and sometimes to the detriment of our understanding.^1 Hacks will forget this easily and collapse `AI' into typa typa, looka looka. Most of us are hacks.
Chapters 1-6
See https://www.retraice.com/segments/re57. On heuristics and biases, see Kahneman (2011); cf. Russell & Norvig (2020) chapter 3.
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References
Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0300209570. Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9780300209570
https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9780300209570
https://lccn.loc.gov/2020947842
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN: 978-0374533557. Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0374533557
https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0374533557
https://lccn.loc.gov/2012533187
Russell, S., & Norvig, P. (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Pearson, 4th ed. ISBN: 978-0134610993. Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0134610993
https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0134610993
https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047498
Footnotes
^1 Crawford (2021) p. 7 ff.
