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Mind and Machine. Using computers to understand how the mind works. Same or different?. A brief history of AI: Prehistory. Automata Descartes: Animals as machines. Computing machines. Da Vinci, Pascal, and Schickard Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
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Mind and Machine Using computers to understand how the mind works.
A brief history of AI:Prehistory • Automata • Descartes: Animals as machines
Computing machines • Da Vinci, Pascal, and Schickard • Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
The First breakthrough • The Analytical Engine was the first stored program computer. • Such a computer has a set of basic instructions used in different sequences to perform calculations. • Complex calculations can be built from simple instructions
Passing grades? • PARRY the Paranoid Robot • Eliza: http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script • Chat bots: http://www.botspot.com/search/s-chat.htm • What about my cats?
The symbol system hypothesis • Successes: • Logic Theorist • SHRDLU • GPS • MYCIN and other Expert Systems