The document defines AI as augmented intelligence that enhances human capabilities rather than replacing experts. It discusses various forms of AI, including weak, strong, and super AI, along with the fields of study that contribute to AI development. The importance of providing subject matter experts with the necessary information to make informed decisions is emphasized.

1. AI
Introducing AI
By : Professor Lili Saghafi
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2. How we define AI ?
• We Define AI as anything that makes machines act more intelligently
• We like to think of AI as augmented intelligence
• We believe that AI should not attempt to replace human experts, but rather extend
human capabilities and accomplish tasks that neither humans nor machines could
do on their own.
• The internet has given us access to more information, faster.
• Distributed computing and IoT have led to massive amounts of data.
• Social networking has encouraged most of that data to be unstructured.
• With Augmented Intelligence, we are putting information that subject matter
experts need at their fingertips, and backing it with evidence so they can make
informed decisions.
• We want experts to scale their capabilities and let the machines do the time-
consuming work.
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3. How do we define intelligence?
• Human beings have innate intelligence, defined as the intelligence that
governs every activity in our body.
• This intelligence is what causes an oak tree to grow out of a little seed, and an
elephant to form from a single-celled organism.
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4. How does AI learn?
• The only innate intelligence machines have is what we give them.
• We provide machines the ability to examine examples and create machine
learning models based on the inputs and desired outputs.
• And we do this in different ways such as Supervised Learning, Unsupervised
Learning, and Reinforcement Learning, about which you will learn in more
detail in subsequent lessons.
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5. AI can be described in different
ways.
Based on strength, breadth, and application, AI can be described in different ways.
• Weak or Narrow AI is AI that is applied to a specific domain. For example, language translators, virtual
assistants,
• self-driving cars, AI-powered web searches, recommendation engines, and intelligent spam filters.
• Applied AI can perform specific tasks, but not learn new ones, making decisions based on
programmed algorithms, and training data.
• Strong AI or Generalized AI is AI that can interact and operate a wide variety of independent and
unrelated tasks.
• It can learn new tasks to solve new problems, and it does this by teaching itself new strategies.
• Generalized Intelligence is the combination of many AI strategies that learn from experience and can
perform at a human level of intelligence.
• Super AI or Conscious AI is AI with human-level consciousness, which would require it to be self-
aware.
• Because we are not yet able to adequately define what consciousness is, it is unlikely that we will be
able to create a conscious AI in the near future.
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6. AI is the fusion of many fields of
study
• Computer science and electrical engineering determine how AI is implemented
in software and hardware.
• Mathematics and statistics determine viable models and measure
performance.
• Because AI is modeled on how we believe the brain works, psychology and
linguistics play an essential role in understanding how AI might work.
• Philosophy provides guidance on intelligence and ethical considerations.
• While the science fiction version of AI may be a distant possibility,
• we already see more and more AI involved in the decisions we make every day.
• Over the years, AI has proven to be useful in different domains, impacting the
lives of people and our society in meaningful ways.
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