5th Homework

2008.04.11

"Artificial Intelligence"

In this week We learned a liitle because we had a vote in tuesday and don't go to class.
Whatever this week's main idea is 'Artificial Intelligence'. In short word we called 'AI'. First I heard about AI in this class I think about Steven Spielberg's movie 'AI'. When I saw that movie I think 'wa, AI is such a great thing' but in the ending it is so sad and gloomy. So I don't have a good cognizance about AI.
AI is both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define artificial intelligence as "the study and design of intelligent agents," where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. AI can be seen as a realization of an abstract intelligent agent which exhibits the functional essence of intelligence. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."
Marvin Minsky made a definition that artificial intelligence AI is the sciences of making machines do things that would require intelligence as if done by humans. It is just my thinking but it would be a little freaky if we actually had a computer that is just same as human beings. This week was fun than other weeks, because we saw many video files and it helps to understand. I liked this week's class style and I'm glad that i'm going better than last month(class understanding & English skills).

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