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A JOURNEY INTO
THE MIND OF MACHINE
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imagine that moment when technology has advanced, to the point where machines will be able to perform human based “mental” and
“physical” activities exactly like a human would or with even better precision.
“’’’ARTIFI
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‘’INTELLI
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DEFINITION
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is an academic field of study which studies the goal of creating intelligence. COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF
HUMAN BEHAVIOR
“PROGRAMS THAT BEHAVE
(EXTERNALLY) LIKE HUMANS”
Example 1-One thing it could be is "Making computational models of human behavior". Since we believe that humans are intelligent, therefore models of intelligent behavior must be AI. There's a great paper by Turing who really set up this idea of AI as making models of human behavior (link).
In this way of thinking of AI, how would you proceed as an AI scientist? One way, which would be a kind of cognitive science, is to do experiments on humans, see how they behave in certain situations and see if you could make computers behave in that same way. Imagine
HUMAN “THOUGHT”
PROCESSES.
• PROGRAMS THAT OPERATE
(INTERNALLY) THE WAY
HUMANS DO
Example 2-Another way is to make computational models of human thought processes. This is a stronger and more constrained view of what the enterprise is. It is not enough to make a program that seems to behave the way humans do; you want to make a program that does it the way humans do it. A lot of people have worked on this in cognitive science and in an area called cognitive neuroscience. The research strategy is to affiliate with someone who does experiments that
processing into high-level vision, memory, and cognition modules; they try to get the modularity to be accurate but they don't worry too much about the details of how the modules are implemented Other people might pick the neuron as a kind of computational unit that