ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE MAIN IDEAS Nils J. Nilsson OLLI COURSE SCI 102 Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Winter Quarter, 2013 Higher Education Center, Medford Room Course Web Page:

OLLIs Community Lecture Series is held on Wednesdays, from 1:00– 3:00pm, in Room A. THIS WEEK: OLLI Poets: The Poetry of Aging. A group of OLLI poets known as Poet Scramble will talk about the poetry of aging, and will award prizes to winners of the poetry contest. This will be the last Community Lecture for the Winter term. OLLI Medford Announcements for the Week of March 4, 2013

More MEDFORD Nothing Currently Scheduled Reminders: OLLIs next fundraiser, OLLI Goes to the Movies, is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19 th. Stay tuned for details. Dont forget that Priority Registration will go through Tuesday, March 5 th. Open registration will begin March 11 th. After the lotteries have been run, members will be notified about whether they are registered for a class or wait listed. Have you taken a look to see if anything in OLLIs Lost and Found belongs to you? It is located at the HECs Welcome Desk. Anything left in Lost and Found after the winter term will be taken to Goodwill.

Class Announcements Today is the last class. No class on March 12!

AI in the News ?

Perception Action Selection Memory Planner Reasoner Language Processing Neural Networks: Deep, Hierarchical Learning (Supervised, Unsupervised) Probabilistic Reasoning: Bayes Rule, Bayesian Networks Logical Reasoning Heuristic Search: A* Goal Achieving: STRIPS Stimulus-Response Actions Reinforcement Learning Map Making and Using Implicit and Explicit Graphs Linguistic, Semantic, Pragmatic Analysis Hidden Markov Models Robot Architectures The Main Ideas

Links to lecture slides (will be posted after each lecture) (Movies and animations do not play in the pdf files, but they should work in the ppsx files.) Jan 8 PDF Format (30 MB) Jan 8 PPSX Format (24 MB) Jan 15 PDF Format (9 MB) Jan 15 PPSX Format (10 MB) Jan 22 PDF Format (10.6 MB) Jan 22 PPSX Format (9.6 MB) Jan 29 PDF Format (5.3 MB) Jan 29 PPSX Format (7.3 MB) Feb 5 PDF Format (3.3 MB) Feb 5 PPSX Format (35 MB) Feb 12 PDF Format (4.7 MB) Feb 12 PPSX Format (3.4 MB) Feb 19 PDF Format (4.1 MB) Feb 19 PPSX Format (45 MB) -- This link actually takes you to my Stanford site Feb 26 PDF Format (24 MB) Feb 26 PPSX Format (300 MB !)

PART SEVEN SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF AI Some Beneficial Some Possibly Worrisome

Some Beneficial Implications? Autonomous Vehicles Household Robots Robots for Dangerous Jobs Assisting the Ill or Infirm Education

More Robot Companions More Useful Assistants and Search Engines Toys/Entertainment Medical Assistance

Some Worrisome Implications? Autonomous Military Robots Autonomous Surveillance Drones Automation of Most Jobs The Filter Bubble and Privacy Philosophical Premature Deployments

The Three Laws of Robotics Isaac Asimov, A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Further Reading and Viewing

AI and Employment Artificial intelligence Difference Engine: Luddite Legacy The Economist, Nov 4, 2011 The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, Jeremy Rifkin, 1995 Will a Robot Take Your Job?, Gary Marcus, The New Yorker, December 29, 2012 Will Robots Steal Your Job?, Farhad Manjoo, Slate, Sept. 26, will_robots_steal_your_job.html

AI and Ethics Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series), Patrick Lin, et al., (Editors), 2012 Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots, Ronald Arkin, 2012 Steve Omohundro: Intelligent technologies are changing every aspect of our lives. If designed with care and forethought, they have the potential to solve many of todays problems. But if designed sloppily, they could be dangerous and harmful to humanity. See: for more elaboration.

Privacy The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think, Eli Pariser, 2011

Other A Pessimistic Analysis and Call to Action: Berglas, Anthony (2008), Artificial Intelligence will Kill our Grandchildren, ndchildren.html There are Some Things Computers Shouldnt Do: Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation, Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information: A Neo- Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking, 1994.

TV Programs Rise of the Drones, NOVA, January 23, 2013 March of the Machines, 60 Minutes, January 11,

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