Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

摘要

Professor Negnevitsky commenced by giving an overview of the development of intelligent systems and posing the two big questions of the universe: "How does a human mind work" and "Can non-humans have minds?" In his opening remarks he indicated that while virtually all literature on artificial intelligence (AI) is expressed in the jargon of computer science, and crowded with complex matrix algebra and differential equations, most ideas behind intelligent systems are simple and straightforward requiring little knowledge of calculus and no knowledge of any programming language. He quoted the dictionary meaning of intelligence as: (1) the ability to understand and learn things, and (2) the ability to think and understand instead of doing things by instinct or automatically.