November 1, 2023
Wednesday of Week 11
Topics of the day
- Nature of intelligence
- Database components
Suggested readings
- Section 17.1 from George Luger, Artificial Intelligence, 5e
- Section 16.1 from George Luger, Artificial Intelligence, 6e
- Section 2.4 from Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Fundamentals of database systems, 4e
- Section 2.4 from Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Fundamentals of database systems, 6e
- Section 1.2 from Jeffrey Ullman and Jennifer Widom, A first course in database systems, 2e
Online references
- Turing test (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chinese room (en.wikipedia.org)
- ELIZA (en.wikipedia.org)
- Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460. (www.csee.umbc.edu)
- How Machines Learn (CGP Grey) (www.youtube.com)
- Database (en.wikipedia.org)
Questions and exercises
- What did Turing think of the question "Can machines think?"? What did he identify as a better question to ask (and how did he answer it)?
Assignments
Today
Upcoming
- Homework 6 due (06 Nov)
- Homework 5 revision (06 Nov)