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C.W. NOTES
What is Intelligence?
Humans have been creating machines that can simplify their lives. The purpose of machines is to
complete jobs that are either too time-consuming or tedious for people to complete. Therefore, by
doing our work for us, machines lighten our weight and assist us in achieving our objectives.
According to researchers, intelligence is the ‘ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it
as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.’
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Artificial Intelligence can be defined:
1. Ability to interact with the real world
1. To perceive, understand and act
1. Example: Speech Recognition – Understanding and synthesis
2. Example: Image Recognition
3. Example: Ability to take action: to have an effect
2. Reasoning and planning
1. Modelling the external world, given input
1. Solving new problems, planning and making decisions
2. Ability to deal with unexpected problems, uncertainties
3. Learning and adaptation
1. Continuous learning and adapting graph
1. Our internal models are always being updated
2. Example: Baby learning to categorize and recognize animals
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