Artificial Intelligence
Elaine Rich

Ideas for Class Presentation Topics

• General topics:
  • Is AI possible?
  • Ethical and legal issues associated with AI
  • Are computers conscious?
  • Portrayal of AI in movies and the media
• Application areas:
  • Games
    • Classical games like chess and checkers
    • Computer games
  • Military
  • Space
  • Education
  • Medicine
  • Science and engineering
  • Finance
  • Robotics
  • Manufacturing
  • Transportation
  • The arts (music, painting, creative writing, etc.)
• Specific techniques:
  • Neural nets
  • Genetic algorithms
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning engines
  • Sharable/reusable knowledge bases
  • Spoken language interfaces
  • Information retrieval