Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

Dr. Murad M. Alaqtash
Department of Electrical Engineering
Tafila Technical University
Second Semester 2013
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Instructor Information
Instructor:
Office:
Office Hours:

Or by Email:

Dr. Murad M. Alaqtash

College of Engineering, 3rd Floor
Sun, Tue:
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Mon, Wed: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
murad.alaqtash@gmail.com
mmalaqtash@ttu.edu.jo

Course Information
Title:
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
(0107551)
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
(0102575)

Time:
Credit:

Sun, Tue, Thr: 8:00 9:00 am

3 Hours

Course Information
TextBooks:

S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A

Modern Approach, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall 2010.
2. Timothy J. Ross, Fuzzy Logic with Engineering
Applications, 3rd edition, John Wiley 2010.
3. Tom M. Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill
1997.
1.

Reference Website:

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
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Grading Policy
Homework, Quizzes, and Projects
First Exam
Second Exam
Final Exam

(14/3/2013)
(18/4/2013)

10%
20%
20%
50%

Homework, Quizzes, and Projects

At the end of each topic, there will be a homework

and a quiz cover that topic.

Projects will be assigned to groups of 3-4 students
during the semester.
Programming knowledge of any programming
language is required to do the projects, Matlab is
very useful.
All projects must be submitted ON TIME, late
work will be graded out of 75% up to 3 days. Any
late further than 3 days will NOT accepted.
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Course Topics
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Problem Solving Search Algorithms
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning- Fuzzy Logic
Machine Learning - Neural Networks

Chapter 1

Outline
What is AI?

State of the Art Applications

What is AI?
The science of making machines that:

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Acting humanly: Turing Test

Turing (1950) "Computing machinery and intelligence":
"Can machines think?" "Can machines behave intelligently?"
Operational test for intelligent behavior: the Imitation Game

Predicted that by 2000, a machine might have a 30% chance of fooling

a lay person for 5 minutes

Do we really need a machine that passes it?
Too hard! Very useful applications can be built that dont pass the

Turing test

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Recent AI
Goal: Build intelligent programs that are useful for a

particular task
Suggested major components of AI:
Knowledge representation
Reasoning
Machine learning
Language understanding

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Acting rationally: Rational agent

Rational behavior: doing the right thing
The right thing: that which is expected to maximize goal

achievement, given the available information

An agent is an entity that perceives and acts
This course is about designing rational agents
Abstractly, an agent is a function from percept histories to
actions:
[f: P* A]
For any given class of environments and tasks, we seek the
agent (or class of agents) with the best performance
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State of the art - Natural Language

Speech technologies (e.g. Siri)
Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
Text-to-speech synthesis (TTS)
Dialog systems

Language processing technologies

Question answering (e.g. IBM Watson)
Automated translation
Web search
Text classification
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State of the art Vision (Perception)

Object and face recognition

Scene segmentation
Image classification

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State of the art Robotics

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State of the art - Decision Making

Scheduling, e.g. airline routing

Route planning, e.g. Google maps

Medical diagnosis
Web search engines
Spam classifiers
Automated help desks
Fraud detection
Product recommendations

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State of the art

Which of the following can be done at present?
Play a decent game of table tennis?
Play a decent game of Jeopardy?
Drive safely along a curving mountain road?
Drive safely along Telegraph Avenue?
Buy a week's worth of groceries on the web?
Buy a week's worth of groceries at Berkeley Bowl?
Discover and prove a new mathematical theorem?
Converse successfully with another person for an hour?
Perform a surgical operation?
Put away the dishes and fold the laundry?
Translate spoken Chinese into spoken English in real time?
Write an intentionally funny story?
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Unintentionally Funny Stories

One day Joe Bear was hungry. He asked his friend

Irving Bird where some honey was. Irving told him

there was a beehive in the oak tree. Joe walked to the
oak tree. He ate the beehive. The End.
Henry Squirrel was thirsty. He walked over to the
river bank where his good friend Bill Bird was
sitting. Henry slipped and fell in the river. Gravity
drowned. The End.
Once upon a time there was a dishonest fox and a
vain crow. One day the crow was sitting in his tree,
holding a piece of cheese in his mouth. He noticed
that he was holding the piece of cheese. He became
hungry, and swallowed the cheese. The fox walked
over to the crow. The End.

[Shank, Tale-Spin System, 1984]

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