Understanding AIthrough pop culture

ByJaidev Deshpande

@jaidevd

SciCamp 1, Mumbai27th April, 2014

AI != Robotics

A robot may or may not be intelligent

AI != Robotics

An intelligent machine may or may not be a Robot

What is Intelligence?

● Logic● Abstract thought● Understanding● Self-awareness● Communication● Learning● Emotional knowledge● Memory● Planning● Problem solving

Logic

Self-awareness

Communication

Learning (Data analysis)

Learning (Classification)

Emotional Knowledge

Planning & Problem Solving

What is Intelligence?

● Logic● Abstract thought● Understanding● Self-awareness● Communication● Learning● Emotional knowledge● Memory● Planning● Problem solving

The Singularity

The Singularity:Computers some day will be able to

create systems of arbitrary complexity

● Moore 's law => Faster computers, more storage

● Faster != smarter● IQ distributions (Humans)

Thus, no reason to assume that fast => smart.

Research in AI

● Why bother?– Because, Fermat's last theorem – Taniyama Shimura

conjecture● Low-hanging fruits:

– Automated data analysis– Machine learning– Pattern recognition - “Understanding” in AI– (Natural) Language processing– Computer vision

Popular AI (and related) projects● Wolfram Alpha● http://kaggle.com● Many in the SciPy stack● MATLAB and GNU Octave● Extreme learning machines● The Hutter Prize