AI: It will never get me a job

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AI It will never get me a job
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What is AI?

• A bad movie with a worse ending
• An episode of the Simpsons where robots take over
  a theme park
• The cop-out area of Computer Science for people
  who cant do math.

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NOOO!!!! (except maybe the math thing)

• AI is the study of making life easier rather than
  harder.
• AI is the study of making dangerous tasks safer
• AI is the study of making fun games more fun

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Topics

• AI in daily life
• Robotics
• Games

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What has AI accomplished?

• AI is so good, people dont realize we are here.
• ATMs, automated phone systems, hand-writing
  recognition
• Expert Systems
• Diagnose your own horrible diseases
• Execution Systems
• Control space missions (see, Math!)

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AI in the news

• Robots
• Search and rescue
• Mine detection
• In-home aids
• Nursebot
• How does AI work here? Path planning,
  perception, Voice recognition, Learning

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Autominder
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AI in your pastimes

• Movies
• Movies arent on film anymore. Combination of
  graphics, modeling, film, etc.
• AI in video games
• Currently not much but it is getting better.

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Interactive Computer Games
"Ask any PC gamer who spends time searching
for deathmatches and he'll tell you that battling
against bots, no matter how well designed they
may be, just can't hold a candle to fighting
human opponents." Jeff Lundrigan, Segas New
Deal, Next Generation Magazine, 22(5), May 2000,
p. 31
Halo Bungie
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Roles of AI in Games

• Tactical Opponents
• Teammates
• Strategic Opponents
• Support Characters
• Autonomous Characters
• Commentators
• Camera Control
• Plot and Story Guides/Directors

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Structure of an Intelligent Agent

• Sensing perceive features of the environment.
• Often omniscient
• Hints embedded in the environment
• Thinking decide what action to take.
• Finite state machines
• Scripted behavior
• Rule-based systems
• Acting doing things in the world.
• Path planning A search
• Often cheating

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AI for students

• Robot competitions
• Large number of competitions every year, some are
  ongoing
• AAAI
• American Association of Artificial Intelligence
• Student membership 20. Conferences have lots of
  funding. (This year Acapulco, next year San Jose)

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AI Topics

• Planning
• Constraint satisfaction
• Natural Language Generation/Understanding
• Agents
• Search-bots, Auction-bots,
• Perception,

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Want to learn more?

• This summer take CECS 451 during summer session
  3.
• Want to help at a robot competition in San Diego
  this weekend?

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Thanks.