Spring 2024 Computer Science 458. 3/6/2024

Canvas Quiz of the Day (need daily password)

Most days, there will be a simple canvas quiz related to the lecture. You need a password to activate the quiz, which I will provide in class. These quizzes will count toward your class participation grade. The quiz is available only during class.

Click for today's quiz.

Also, you will earn class participation points for posting to Discussions (not Ed Discussions.)

Administrivia

I have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays from 2-3 pm, on zoom, id 459 434 2854.

Complete the online student information sheet. Note: the previous form was not working. Please submit again. Thanks.

You may provide mid-semester feedback on canvas starting March 1st and ending March 8th. It is anonymous.

Yale Information Society Project Free lunch.

Assignments

Assignments. The paper is now available. It is due April 1st (how appropriate). You should avoid writing about things I already know. Be original. Have your own ideas. I don't want you to given me back my own marbles.

If you work on the AI and Ethics question, I suggest you read Professor Floridi's book: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (Oxford University Press, 2023), available online from the library.

The project is also available.

Eren Orbey, Microsoft contact information

Eren.Orbey@gmail.com

CACM History of AI

June 2023 Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
December 2023 There Was No 'First AI Winter'
February 2024 How the AI Boom Went Bust

See Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Alternatively, "Do not invoke conspiracy as explanation when ignorance and incompetence will suffice, as conspiracy implies intelligence."

It is as if medical researchers promised eternal life, but fell short, and merely cured cancer. Is that a problem? The military had much lower expectations.

The Yale AI Project: Cognitive Modelling

See The Yale Artificial Intelligence Project: A Brief History Stephen Slade, AI Magazine, 1987.

See Conceptual Dependency and Its Descendants Steven Lytinen, 1992.

Conceptual Dependency (CD) (slides)
MARGIE: parse English into CD, infer other concepts, generate natural languge (English and German, later Chinese)
- Task Orientation
- Psychological process model
- Canonical representation of knowledge
- Translation, synonomy, paraphrase
- Inference
- Ambiguity
Scripts, plans, goals and understanding (the book Searle read)
- Scripts: SAM, FRUMP
- Plans: PAM, TALESPIN
  One day Joe Bear was hungry. He asked his friend Irving Bird where some honey was. Irving told him there was a beehive in the oak tree. Joe threatened to hit Irving if he didn’t tell him where some honey was.
  One day Joe Bear was hungry. He asked his friend Irving Bird where some honey was. Irving told him there was a beehive in the oak tree. Joe walked to the oak tree. He ate the beehive.
Learning, memory, and explantion
- Memory Organization Packets (MOPS)
- Bower, Black, and Turner
- CYRUS
- IPP
- Case-based systems (later topic)

Goal-based Decision Making: VOTE

See Amazon Talk.pdf Goal-based Decision-Making: An Interpersonal Model.

See also Goal-based Decision Making. Stephen Slade. Hardcover: 304 pages. Publisher: Psychology Press (October 1, 1993). It is also available at the Yale Bookstore. Online copy through Yale library Online copy of thesis from which book was derived at Yale Library

See Running VOTE on the zoo.

Check out sarcastic-explanation

Re goal hierarchy: Taylor Swift Fan Admits She Considered Skipping Kidney Transplant for Eras Tour Concert

The Realm of Decisions

For the next class and the coming weeks: Give an example of an explanation you thought interesting because it was especially good or bad. It can be personal or from the news. Use the Discussions section of canvas (not Ed Discussion). You earn a quiz point by posting to Discussions.

What is a correct decision? See A Realistic Model of Rationality. This short paper provides a high-level introduction to the topics we will discuss in this course: goals, plans, resources, relationships, goal adoption, explanations, subjective decisions, emotions, advice, and persuasion. We contrast it with the standard economic decision theory. We want to develop a theory that can be implemented in a computer program.

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