Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368

Topics Covered in COSC 6368

• More general topics:– heuristic search and search algorithm in general– logical reasoning

• AI-specific Topics:– resolution / theorem proving– reasoning in uncertain environments and belief networks– knowledge-based systems– machine learning centering on inductive learning– brief coverage of ontologies, evolutionary computing, AI

in general

Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368

AI in General and What Was not Covered in COSC 6368

• Robotics is a quite important sub-field of AI, but very few teach it in the graduate AI class.

• Planning and natural language understanding deserve more coverage than they received in this class.

• Intelligent Agents and AI for the Internet might become more important changing what is taught in graduate AI-classes in a few years from now.

• Data Mining and Intelligent Data Understanding should perhaps be covered in more depth.

Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368

Positive Forces for AI

• Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining (KDD)

• Intelligent Agents for WWW

• Robotics (Robot Soccer, Intelligent Driving, Robot Waiters…)

• Creating of Knowledge Bases and Sharing of Knowledge (especially for Science and Engineering)

• Computer Chess and Computer Games --- AI for Entertainment

Christoph F. Eick: Final Thoughts on AI and COSC 6368

Five “Laws” of AI

• Bounded rationality implies opportunistic search• A physical system symbol is necessary and

sufficient for intelligent action (PSSH)• The magic number is: 70000 +/ 20000• Search compensates for lack of knowledge• Knowledge compensates for lack of search