Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: vidam on January 04, 2008, 03:46:29 AM
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A British fiction writer told me he is writing fiction novels about encounters with AI. Since AI is such a broad term, I wondered exactly what does AI cover. AI does not necessarily just mean robots. I could imagine it isn't limited to robotics, or board games/puzzles?
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Well, it means Artificial Intelligence, so it covers everything that has some intelligence made by humans. I guess... :P
From dishwashers to robots!
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AI is not a very well defined term - according to my AI textbook there are 4 main definitions of AI
-"[The Automation of] activities that we associate with human thinking, activities such as decision-making, problem solving, learning..." (Bellman, 1978)
ie: Think/reason like a human
-"The study of the computations that make it possible to perceive, reason, and act" (Winston, 1992)
ie: Think reason perfectly rationally
-"The study of creating machines that perform functions that require intelligence when performed by people" (Kurzweil, 1990)
ie: Behave/act like a human
-"A field of study that seeks to explain and emulate intelligent behavior in terms of computational processes" (Schalkoff, 1990)
ie: Behave/act perfectly rationally
Taken from "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" by Russell, Norvig
AI can be applied to anything that requires decisions to be made.