Topics Covered in COSC 6368

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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

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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.

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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

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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