CS 470 - Spring 2020.

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The Chinese Room in action

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What is the smartest computer program with which you have intertacted?

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Lecture : Intelligent Agents. 1/24/2020

Administrivia

I have office hours Wednesdays from 4-6 pm, Room 014 AKW. Also, I invite students to join me for lunch in a residential college after class on Wednesdays.

ULA office hours have begun. See the [Contact Info and Schedule] as well as piazza.

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Start the homework assignment: [Assignments]. It is a python refresher. hw1 is now available.

AI Talk Monday, January 27 at 4pm

Lecture: Intelligent Agents

Slides: 2019 Intelligent Agents These slides are from Professor Scassellati.

Eliza in emacs: meta-x doctor Weisenbaum paper (1966) Run: python3 eliza.py (uses: doctor.txt)

POMDP Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. MDP + HMM = POMDP

ALIVE (Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment)

Slides: AIMA chapter 2 uses LISP. From Russell at Berkeley. 6 up

jupyter notebook video tutorial Per posting on piazza.

%lsmagic
%matplotlib inline
%%HTML

agents.py agents code, from Norvig.

agents.ipynb agents jupyter notebook, from Norvig. You need to understand this code and its related python modules to tackle hw1. (agents.html html version.)

hw1.html is now available: vacuum cleaner world! hw1.ipynb (hw1nb.html html version)

Classic Yale AI

See 1/22 lecture.

CS 470 Thought Experiment Please complete. The purpose of this is to get you thinking about the topics, not to find the correct answer.

Python and Jupyter Notebooks

Google Python Class

Notes on Google Python Class

Once you have a foundation in python from the google class, you should tackle the following topics, needed for AI programming:

recursion.py

listcomp.py list comprehensions

object oriented programming load: oop.py

stack.py stacks / data structures

0117.ipynb jupyter note book to demo above files. You need to open it in jupyter in a directory containing the above python files.

Other topics: exceptions, iterators, generators, decorators, networking, python virtual machine.

hw0a.ipynb This is a jupyter notebook. You need to open it in jupyter. (hw0a.html html version)

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