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Welcome to AI

Welcome to AI. CS 3610, Artificial Intelligence Dr. Ben Schafer www.cs.uni.edu/~schafer/3610. Dice Game. Each pair of students should take three dice. Take turns rolling the dice. You may set aside any of the 3 dice You may reroll the remaining dice up to two more times.

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Welcome to AI

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  1. Welcome to AI CS 3610, Artificial Intelligence Dr. Ben Schafer www.cs.uni.edu/~schafer/3610

  2. Dice Game • Each pair of students should take three dice. • Take turns rolling the dice. • You may set aside any of the 3 dice • You may reroll the remaining dice up to two more times. • Highest three dice total at the end of the three rolls wins that round. • Play best out of five rounds. • Alternate who goes first

  3. Getting to know you • "Mugshots"

  4. Why Are You Here? • Common reasons I have heard. • AI looks "cool" in the movies (in my video games). • I want to write a super cool app that does ______. • AI is a "hot" field. • Knowing AI might help me get a job. • Because I needed one last class in the Data & Applications category

  5. Why Are You Here? • Common reasons I have heard. • AI is a "hot" field. • Knowing AI might help me get a job. • True??? I don’t know • But, I do think that AI will always be relevant to the student of CS. Every practitioner of computer science should be familiar with the field, its techniques, and its current interests.

  6. Why? • Well, consider this list of topics : • timesharing systems • Deep Blue and Watson • object-oriented programming • visual programming • client-server computing • web crawlers • Marketing Systems (such as used at Amazon.com) • All have their roots in AI research!

  7. How this course is "different" from other CS courses • We will not focus our attention on programming. • Although we will program (and multiple times). • We will discuss a lot of philosophical issues. • Although we will almost always ground them in algorithms and data structures. • You will have an opportunity to solve a problem or two outside the discipline of computer science.

  8. Syllabus Discussion • Course website • www.cs.uni.edu/~schafer/3610/

  9. Syllabus Discussion • The Textbook • Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century (2nd edition)Lucci and Kopec • Lots of good books in the library or available online.  Feel free to consult other books for a different approach

  10. Grading • I got tired of arguing about 1 or 2 points when it didn’t matter to the final grade. • I got tired of assignments and exams where I told you "No. You are wrong." and then gave you no incentive to re-learn it.

  11. Grading • There are 2 kinds of graded activities this semester: • Homework • 5 programming • 2 written • Competency Demos • 5 total • Everything this semester is graded on a 0-5 point system

  12. Grades - Homework

  13. Revising your work • For most homework: • You will submit on time. • You will receive a grade. • I will discuss what I was looking for. • If you turned it in on time you may resubmit for a new grade and I will average the grades.

  14. Grades – Competency Demos • Each question will be graded using

  15. Revising your work • I will schedule an optional second offering of the competency demos (not the same exact material, but the same learning outcomes). • I will average the two grades.

  16. Final Grades • 12 grades worth five points each • Optional, Final, take-home, exam

  17. The Travelling Farmer • A farmer is travelling with a fox, a goose, and a sack of grain • Wants to cross a river using one canoe • Canoe can hold the farmer and one other item • Never leave the fox alone with the goose • Never leave the goose alone with the grain • Aim: To get all safely across the river

  18. Missionaries and Cannibals • Three missionaries and three cannibals • Want to cross a river using one canoe. • Canoe can hold up to two people. • Can never be more cannibals than missionaries on either side of the river. • Aim: To get all safely across the river without any missionaries being eaten. • [Variant: 5 and 5 with a canoe that holds 3]

  19. Your FIRST Homework • Homework 0 is posted and due on Wed. • Type up a couple of pages (600-1200 words) on “How do you define AI?” • This is an “opinion” piece and will be granted credit for thoughtful completion. • Submit via the electronic submission system (testing it more than anything). • Bring a print copy to class.

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