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Artificial Intelligence, LP4, VT2013
Obligatory reading
The main literature is this standard textbook:
Suggested reading
Historical papers in AI
- "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", written by Alan
Turing and published in 1950 in Mind, is a seminal paper on the
topic of artificial intelligence in which the concept of what is now
known as the Turing test was introduced to a wide audience.
- Logic Theorist
is a symbolic information processing program designed to prove
theorems in the propositional calculus. It was programmed by Allen
Newell, Herbert Simon, and J.C. Shaw, of the RAND Corporation and
Carnegie Technical Institute in 1956. At the time Logic Theorist was
the first and only existing program to perform what might be
considered intelligent or thinking behavior.
- General Problem Solver (GPS)
was a computer program created in 1957 by Herbert Simon, J.C. Shaw,
and Allen Newell that separated out the universal aspects of problem
solving into a machine that could be tuned to particular domains by
adding domain specific knowledge.
- "Planning with common sense"
is a classic paper by John McCarthy (1959), in which he uses logic to
describe the manner in which intelligent machines or people behave.
- Artificial intelligence research was in a slump in the 1980s,
making hulking boxes on wheels that relied on expensive sensors and
computers and took hours to navigate a room. Rodney Brooks knew
something was fundamentally wrong with this approach. Human beings
take seconds, not hours, to walk across a room, and yet our brains
are slower than a computer's. In a revolutionary paper titled
"Elephants Don't Play Chess",
Brooks turned the field of robotics on
its head by introducing the idea of behavior based robotics.
- The idea in the Cyc project is that a very large component of
intelligence is a huge database of facts about the world. Cyc has
therefore built the world's largest and most complete general
knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine.
OpenCyc is the open source version.
- 1975 ACM Turing Award Lecture,
by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon .
