The document provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI). It defines AI as techniques for solving exponentially hard problems in polynomial time by exploiting domain knowledge. It then briefly discusses the history of AI, including its roots in logic developed by Aristotle and its modern conception introduced by Alan Turing and John McCarthy. The document also lists some common applications of AI like game playing, automated reasoning, expert systems, natural language processing, planning and robotics. It provides advantages of AI such as taking on complex work, completing tasks faster, and making fewer errors, but also disadvantages like lacking human qualities, potential job replacement, and possible misuse. Finally, it outlines four possible goals for AI systems: thinking like humans, thinking rationally, acting like

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2. “AI is the study of techniques for
solving exponentially hard
problems in polynomial time by
exploiting knowledge about the
problem domain.“ - Elaine Rich

3. Although artificial intelligence as an independent field of study
is relatively new, it has some roots in the past. We can say that
it started 2,400 years ago when the Greek philosopher Aristotle
invented the concept of logical reasoning. The effort to finalize
the language of logic continued with Leibniz and Newton.
George Boole developed Boolean algebra in the nineteenth
century (Appendix E) that laid the foundation of computer
circuits. However, the main idea of a thinking machine came
from Alan Turing, who proposed the Turing test. The term
“artificial intelligence” was first coined by John McCarthy in
1956.
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ns of AI :ns of AI :
•Game playing
•Automated
Reasoning &
Theorem Proving
•Expert Systems
•Natural
Language
Understanding &
Semantic
Modeling
•Planning &
Robotics

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6. ADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
 Can take on stressful and complex work that humans may
struggle/can not do.
 Can complete task faster than a human can most likely
 To discover unexplored things. i.e. outer space
 Less errors and defects
 Function is infinite

7. DISADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEDISADVANTAGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
 Lacks the "human touch"
 Has the ability to replace human jobs
 Can malfunction and do the opposite of
what they are programmed to do
 Can be misused leading to mass scale
destruction
 May corrupt younger generation

8. We end up with four possible goals:
Systems that think like humans (focus on reasoning and human framework)
Systems that think rationally (focus on reasoning and a general concept of intelligence)
Systems that act like humans (focus on behavior and human framework)
Systems that act rationally (focus on behavior and a general concept of intelligence)

9. The robots
are coming
to steal our
jobs

10. Thank You