Introduction to Artificial Intelligence CS 260 Vanderbilt University Instructor: Douglas H. Fisher Lecture 1 What is Artificial Intelligence ? Douglas H. Fisher Some slides taken from the resource site of David Poole and Alan Mackworth, Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, Cambridge University Press and free and online at All lecture materials are copyright © Poole and Mackworth, 2010 and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.

But AIers don’t just concern themselves with dreams of autonomous agents, but also the development of intelligent (cognitive) tools to assist humans – or to put it another way, the development of smarter “hybrid agents” (human + tools) that are better than either component alone. (DHF)

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An AI need not operate like an NI, just as a plane need not operate like a bird The space of known naturally-occurring intelligences (humans, other animals, societies, nature, …) The space of possible intelligences (alien, machine, human and AI hybrids, …) Douglas H. Fisher

What of a hybrid human and AI (intelligent tool)? (DHF)

What is Artificial Intelligence? The computational science of developing smart(er) artificial agents IBM’s Deep Blue IBM’s Watson Apple’s SIRI Identify other examples of artificial agents that act intelligently The computational science of nondeterministic reasoning Exploring, evaluating and acting on choices AI and NP (nondeterministic polynomial) problems Douglas H. Fisher

Other Sources Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Now and the Future ( ) Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering at Vanderbilt University, talks about the state of the art in artificial intelligence and robotics in this interview by Adelyn Jones of WRLT FM radio in Nashville. The interview was aired Sunday, March 19, 2006 and was produced by Dan Buckley and Adelyn Jones. Music by John Scofield. (Used with permission from Tuned In Broadcasting and John Scofield.) Radio Lab podcast ( ) "Talking to machines” Douglas H. Fisher