November 4, 2024
Monday of Week 11
Topics of the day
- Alpha-beta pruning
- Assorted review
- Heuristics, take 2 (minimax)
- Nature of intelligence
Suggested readings
- Sections 17.1, 4.4.3 from George Luger, Artificial Intelligence, 5e
- Sections 16.1, 4.4.3 from George Luger, Artificial Intelligence, 6e
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)
- Alpha-beta pruning (en.wikipedia.org)
- Branch and bound (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
- Project 3: A* due
- Homework 5 due
Upcoming
- Project 4: Database out (06 Nov)
- Homework 6 due (11 Nov)
