COMP3411/9814 Artificial Intelligence
Term 1, 2024

Week 1 Tutorial

  1. Introductions

    Introduce yourselves, get to know your tutor

  2. What is Intelligence?

    Define in your own words:

    1. intelligence
    2. artificial intelligence
    3. agent
    4. rationality
    5. logical reasoning

  3. Current State of the Art

    Pick a few tasks from the following list, or others of your own choosing, and do a Web search to discover to what extent they can currently be performed by computers:

    1. Play a decent game of table tennis (ping-pong)
    2. Drive in the center of Cairo, Egypt
    3. Drive along a curving mountain road
    4. Play games like Chess, Go, Bridge or Poker
    5. Discover and 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 specialized area of law
    9. Translate spoken English into spoken Swedish (or Chinese) in real time
    10. Perform a complex surgical operation

    For the currently infeasible tasks, try to find out what the difficulties are and predict when, if ever, they will be overcome.

  4. PEAS Description

    Choose a few of the tasks from Part 3 and, for each task, develop a PEAS description of the task environment, characterize the environment according to the properties given in lectures, and select a suitable agent type (or, discuss the relative merits of the different agent types presented in lectures).

  5. LLM's

    To what extent are predictive models like ChatGPT really intelligent? What are their strengths and limitations?

  6. Evolution

    Why would evolution tend to result in systems that act rationally? What goals are such systems "designed" to achieve?

  7. General AI

    Do you believe human-level AI will ever be achieved? Why? Why Not? Are you persuaded by any of the commonly posed objections to AI?

  8. Societal Impact

    What changes, challenges and potential dangers are likely to arise from progress in AI and Robotics – for the economy, and for society in general?