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Textbooks
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Grading
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Academic
Integrity
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Course Description
 Throughout history, we, people, have
been fascinated by ourselves. Our fascination has led us to imagine that we
could create artificial copies of ourselves. Early legends document those
dreams. Our literature, movies
and art embody more of those imaginings. As soon as we had technology, we began
to use it to realize our dreams.
And now the modern computer gives us the opportunity to build agents
that have begun to rival people in performing some kinds of
"intelligent" tasks. The goal of this course is to explore our
attempts to build artificial people, starting with early legends and
culminating with modern artificial intelligence. We’ll end with a discussion of
the question, “Suppose that eventually we can build artificial people,
should we?”
Course Topics
- Legends,
stories and plays
- Movies
- Automata in the age of technology before computers
- Clocks
and other early automata
- Artificial
voices
- Early
hoaxes
- Anything
can be represented in binary
- Many
things can be described using some kind of logical formalism
- Statistical
inference
- The
perils of exponential growth
- There
exist undecidable problems
- What
is it and how will we recognize it?
- The
importance of knowledge
- Representing
knowledge
- Search
- Language
- Common
sense
- Expert
systems
- Learning
- Machines
that beat us at our own games
- Modern
role playing games: blending imagination with science
- Our
closest relatives - chimpanzees
- What
is consciousness?
- Art
and music
- Cyborgs:
merging human and machine
- The
Luddite argument: how will people eat if their jobs disappear?
- Will
smart machines replace us?
- Who
is liable for the behavior of artificially intelligent systems?
Contact Information
Elaine Rich
- ear@cs.utexas.edu
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