Foundations of Artificial Intelligence I
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence I
The course "Foundations of Artificial Intelligence I" introduces into the field of artificial intelligence and one of its most important metaphors, which is metaphor of the rational agent.
It discusses the beginnings of artificial intelligence with Alan Turing and his seminal article where he asked the question whether machines can think, touches upon the notions of symbolic and subsymbolic AI and discusses four possible directions of AI research. We review the Turing test as a test of intelligence and discuss a working definition for artificial intelligence. An overview over the history of AI, a discussion of selected current challenges of AI, and an outlook on the next decades of AI research conclude the first module.
The second module focuses on the metaphor of the rational agent. It looks closely at the properties of agents and environments and discusses how agents can act successfully in different environments. Different types of agents and their underlying architectures are discussed.
The course is based on the textbook by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach, 3rd edition, 2012, or 4th edition 2020. The 3rd edition is also available in German: Stuart Russell und Peter Norvig: Künstliche Intelligenz - Ein Moderner Ansatz, 3. aktualisierte Auflage, Pearson 2012.
"Foundations of Artificial Intelligence I" is part of the course series "Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" that covers a variety of algorithms and methods that are of central importance in AI and of major practical relevance.