Wintersemester 2001/2002 :

KV Artificial Intelligence

(last update: 26.02.2001)

Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer
Fumiya Iida
Kojiro Matsushita
Massimiliano Lungarella
Geoff Nitschke
Gabriel Gomez
Dale Thomas
Dr. Daniel Bisig

KVAI: Donnerstag  08.30 - 10.00 , Institut für Informatik, Uni Irchel, Höhrsaal 03-G-91
Exercises: Donnerstag 10.15 - 12.00 Uhr, Institut für Informatik, Uni Irchel, Höhrsaal 03-G-91

Prüfungsresultate


Contents:

While in the classical approach intelligence was viewed essentially as information processing taking place in the brain, more recently the insight that the interaction with the environment is of central importance is gaining more and more acceptance. This has lead to the metaphor of embodiment, which means that intelligence is always a property of an entire organism, which often leads to surprising insights. The class provides a systematic introduction to "New Artificial Intelligence" (also called embodied AI/Cognitive Science).
- The study of intelligence
- Classical approaches to cognitive science and their problems
- Theoretical foundations of New AI
- Neural networks for adaptive systems
- Braitenberg vehicles
- Subsumption architecture
- Evolutionary approaches and artificial life
- Design principles of autonomous agents
- Case studies
- Future prespectives


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Assignments (Check the latest information of the class!)
 

Literature:

-Pfeifer, R. & Scheier, C. (1999). Understanding Intelligence. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press.
Go to "Understanding Intelligence" book homepage

"People trained in classical AI will find this book an articulate and thought-provoking challenge to much that they have taken for granted. People new to cognitive science will find it a stimulating introduction to one of the field's most productive controversies. Pfeifer and Scheier deserve our thanks for a thorough, assessible, and courteous contribution in the best tradition of scholarly debate."
-- H. Van Dyke, Computing Reviews
 
 
 
 
 

Data for exercises:

Related links:
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Neuronics   (company producing NNetView simulator and Samurai robot)
- Cyberbotics ( company producing Webots simulator)
- K-team (company producing Khepera robot)

- ALICE (Turing Test machine ALICE)
- ELIZA (Turing Test machine ELIZA)
- Loebner Prize homepage

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer, pfeifer@ifi.unizh.ch
Fumiya Iida, iida@ifi.unizh.ch
Kojiro Matsushita, matsu@ifi.unizh.ch
Massimiliano Lungarella, lunga@ifi.unizh.ch
Geoff Nitschke, nitschke@ifi.unizh.ch
Gabriel Gomez, gomez@ifi.unizh.ch
Dale Thomas, thomas@ifi.unizh.ch
Dr. Daniel Bisig, dbisig@ifi.unizh.ch