GigaDivas

Gigadivas - Artificial Intelligence

Goals

• Learn about difficulties computers have with artificial intelligence.
• Learn about Artificial Intelligence
• Get hands-on experience with an AI system.
• Use critical thinking skills to analyze information obtained through Internet search and use it to analyze the AI system experience.

To Do

This lab has two parts to it. In the first part, you will learn about Artificial Intelligence and natural languge. In the second part, you will gain experience with a language bot. You will be required to think about what you have learned and apply that knowledge to answering a question.

1. Go to webopedia web site. Ask the web site for the definition of Artificial Language. Read the definition. If you do not understand something, ask.
2. Click on the Natural Language Link. Read the information presented. Think about what it means.
3. Have a conversation with a computer: A.L.I.C.E BOT. Go to AliceBot's web site

   Explore some of the links on the page to learn about alice/aiml.

   In the upper right corner there is a link to have a conversation with Alice. Go there and have a conversation with alice, subject of your choice.

   Alan Turning is considered to be the Father of Artificial Intelligence. He effectively launched the field in a paper entitled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", which he published in 1950. In the paper, he proposed a test for determining whether a machine was intelligent. This has come to be known as the Turning Test. The test involves two people and a computer. One person, the interrogator, types questions into a computer terminal. The interrogator sits alone in a room. The questions can be anything. Answers appear on the terminal. The interrogator guesses whether the answers were typed by the other person, in another room, or by the computer. If the computer can fool the interrogator into thinking the other person answered the questions, it demonstrates intelligent behavior. According to Turing, if it acts intelligent, it is intelligent.

4. Send me an email, bracken@wilkes.edu, with the following information:
   1. What is artificial intelligence?
   2. Does Alice Bot pass the Turning Test? Why or Why not?
   3. Did you have fun?

Search tools

altavista
excite
hotbot
infoseek
lycos
mckinley
webcrawler
yahoo

metacrawler

google

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