Lecture 30

We gave a brief overview about the beginnings, the goals and the current state of the art in Artificial intelligence. Artificial intellegence techniques essentially come in two different flavors. The symbolic flavor uses symbolic techniques, such as logics, search, to tackle problems, the other is a connectivist approach that uses mathematics to model the behavior of neurons.

We start our discussion with a symbolic view of the world and introduce game trees and search trees, and motivate the hard questions using the example of blocks world.

Reading: Invitation to Computer Science Chapter 13.
Algorithmics: Chapter 12.