Week 1 - What is Artificial Intelligence

Group Discussion: Introducing Yourself

Introduce yourself to your tutor and your classmates. Please make sure you mention:

1. Your name.
2. Which degree program you are enrolled in.
3. What aspect of artificial intelligence interests you the most. What you hope to gain by joining the course.

Can AI solve it?

Choose one of the following tasks (or, a different task of your own choice):

1. Play a decent game of table tennis (ping pong)
2. Drive in the centre of Cairo, Egypt
3. Drive along a winding mountain road
4. Play games such as Chess, Go, Bridge or Poker
5. Discover & prove new mathematical theorems
6. Compose a piece of music, or paint a painting
7. Write an intentionally funny story
8. Give competent legal advice in a specialised area of law
9. Translate spoken English into Chinese (or Swedish) in real time
10. Perform a complex surgical operationC

Do a Web search and conclude whether or not AI can presently solve the task. If not, please describe what difficulties or challenges remain, and try to predict when, if ever, these difficulties will be overcome.

Embodied Agents

The Nao robot is currently used in the RoboCup Soccer Standard Platform League:

Suppose you have been asked to form a new team to compete in the RoboCup SPL. You are given the robot, with only a basic Linux operating system, without any software to actually run the robot. What are the main software modules that the team has to write to get a team of five robots to play. They can communicate with each other but WiFi, but you are not allowed to control them remotely.