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Week 1 - Introduction and Basic Concepts of AI

The document is an introduction to artificial intelligence tutorial that defines key AI terms like intelligence, artificial intelligence, rationality, and logically. It describes concepts like the Chinese Room Argument and differences between strong and weak AI. It poses a series of questions about when AI began to be studied, tasks computers can and cannot do, necessary advances for AI success, and whether AI is a branch of computer science. Finally, it examines which tasks computers can currently solve like playing table tennis or giving legal advice.

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Week 1 - Introduction and Basic Concepts of AI

The document is an introduction to artificial intelligence tutorial that defines key AI terms like intelligence, artificial intelligence, rationality, and logically. It describes concepts like the Chinese Room Argument and differences between strong and weak AI. It poses a series of questions about when AI began to be studied, tasks computers can and cannot do, necessary advances for AI success, and whether AI is a branch of computer science. Finally, it examines which tasks computers can currently solve like playing table tennis or giving legal advice.

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence AAPP002-4-2-IAI-T Intro to AI

Tutorial 1 (Week 1)

1. What is intelligence?
A1. The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills in a given scenario
2. Define the following terms:
a. Artificial Intelligence
A2a. computer systems that are able to perform tasks requiring human’s
intelligence, visual perception, speech recognition, decision making and
multilingual
b. Rationality
A2b. The computer AI is expected to take in the necessary precautions and
measures and to act logically when making a decision
c. Logically
A2c. The AI here measures the best way possible to achieve a goal before making
a decision to do so.
3. What is AI Winter?
A3. The quiet period of development and research where funding of AI and initiatives has
gone through a number of active and inactive phases.
4. Describe the Chinese Room Argument.
A4. The theory says no matter how smart the computer AI and human-like intelligence is
it cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness.
5. Describe the Lucas Penrose argument.

6. Explain the difference between strong AI and weak AI. Explain how this dichotomy
differs from the difference between strong and weak AI.

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence AAPP002-4-2-IAI-T Intro to AI

A6. Strong AI is capable of learning and thinking like humans while weak AI can make
automations and calculations on specific tasks. Strong AI have mind of its own to
complete any given tasks, while the weak AI does not have self-awareness.

7. To what extent are the following computer systems instances of artificial intelligence:
a. Supermarket bar code scanners
b. Voice activated telephone menus
c. Spelling and grammar correction features in Microsoft Word
d. Internet routing algorithms that respond dynamically to the state of the network

8. When did Artificial Intelligence first begin to be studied? Your answer should be
more detailed than a simple date.

9. Are there any tasks that a human can do that you think a computer could never be
programmed to do? Why?

10. What advances in technology or understanding are necessary before those AI is


considered successful?

11. Is Artificial Intelligence a branch of computer science or an alternative to computer


science?

12. Examine the AI literature to discover whether the following tasks can currently be
solved by computers. Justify your answer with an example.
a. Playing a decent game of table tennis (ping pong)
b. Driving in the center of Cairo, Egypt
c. Buying a week’s worth of groceries at the market
d. Buying a week’s worth of groceries on the web
e. Giving competent legal advice in a specialized area of law
f. Performing a complex surgical operation
g. Translating spoken English into spoken Swedish in real time

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