Artificial Intelligence (91.420/543) and Machine Learning and Data Mining (91.421/544)

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Artificial Intelligence (91.420/543)andMachine
Learning and Data Mining (91.421/544)

• Prof. Gary Livingston

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Artificial Intelligence

• Are you interested in learning how to write
  programs that can
• Play a game
• Adapt
• Solve logic problems
• Translate from English to another language
• Make medical discoveries

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Artificial Intelligence

• Then AI is for you!
• AI is the study of writing programs that perform
  tasks that appear to require intelligence
• Sophisticated reasoning
• Knowledge
• Learning

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Artificial Intelligence

• Do you think AI isnt applicable to your area?

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Artificial Intelligence

• AI is everywhere
• Remote Agent successfully controlled the Deep
  Space One satellite for two days
• Armys logistics planner is credited for helping
  to win the Gulf War quickly
• Five autonomous vehicles successfully completed
  the DARPA Grand challenge drive 32 miles over
  desert terrain fully autonomously

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In AI You Will

• Learn how to add intelligence to your programs
• Learn Python
• Great prototyping language
• Implement fun AI programs
• Othello player
• Othello competition
• Wumpus world agent
• Wumpus world simulator
• Learn a lot and have fun

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Machine Learning

• Key aspect of AI uses knowledge

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Machine Learning

• Key aspect of AI uses knowledge
• It could be programmed in, but thats impractical
• It can be learned from experience
• ? Machine Learning

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Machine Learning

• Key aspect of AI uses knowledge
• It could be programmed in, but thats impractical
• It can be learned from experience
• ? Machine Learning
• Machine learning can also discover new knowledge
  for humans (data mining)

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Machine Learning

• Key aspect of AI uses knowledge
• It could be programmed in, but thats impractical
• It can be learned from experience
• ? Machine Learning
• Machine learning can also discover new knowledge
  for humans (data mining)
• Machine learning is used everywhere
• Biology
• Software engineering
• Compilers
• Networking

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Machine Learning and Data Mining Course

• First 2/3 of the course
• Fundamental ML methods
• Last 1/3 of the course
• Complete a real data mining project using real
  data from real problems
• Learn a lot and have fun