Hi guys! Episode 3 is here, and we cover some of the basics - what is an artificial intelligence, and what are the current areas being researched. We talked about differing approaches to A.I. Whether the goal should be creating a human-like intelligence, or a ration intelligence, for instance, or whether the thought process is important, or only the result (action). We also discuss some of the major fields of research inside artificial intelligence: natural language processing, computer vision, knowledge representation, knowledge processing, machine learning and robotics.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Resources:

The book:

Russell & Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2008) http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

Turing's original paper on the imitation game:

https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

Topics that we covered:

cognitive biases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

logical forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_form

complexity theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory