Defining AI
AI = artificial intelligence
Intelligence?
The faculty of understanding.
The ability to perceive or infer information and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
L’intelligence y implique la capacité à résoudre des problèmes ou à produire des biens ayant une valeur dans un contexte culturel ou collectif précis. (Intelligence is the capacity to solve problems or to produce value according to a cultural or communal context)
-Howard Gardner, « Intelligences multiples – Une théorie qui bouleverse nos idées reçues »
Intelligence!
- understanding
- ability to perceive and retain information
- problem-solving capacity
- value production
Artificial?
AI is the study of how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are better.
-Elaine Rich & Kevin Knight (1983)
Agents that receive percepts from the environment and perform actions.
-Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig (1995)
Defining artificial intelligence (AI) is a persistent challenge, often muddied by technical ambiguity and varying interpretations. Commonly used definitions heavily emphasize technical properties of AI but neglect the human purpose of it…
Artificial!
- human-made computer programmes
- perform actions designated by human
- and often previously performed by human
Summary
- our AIs
- computer programmes
- perform “intelligent” actions
- perceive environement
- retain information
- solve problems
- produce value