CS 115: Computing for the Socio-Techno Web
Lecture 15: Introductions to Algorithms
October 31, 2019
What is AI?
AI Today
- Mostly about engineering domain-specific solutions
rather than creating general theories
- A set of “tools” for representing information and
using them to solve specific tasks
- Neural networks, hidden Markov models, Bayesian networks, heuristic search, logic, ...
- There’s no magic in AI.
It’s representation, probability, and algorithms
More on that ...