Artificial Intelligence Homework 1
Due date: Friday 1/20 in class
This assignment will be collected at the beginning of Friday's class. Please bring a hard copy to turn in. Your assignments can be hand-written or typed. This first assignment is meant to (1) make explicit your assumptions and beliefs with regards to artificial intelligence and (2) familiarize me with your interests and mathematical background.
  1. How would you define "artificial intelligence"? (Don't use the definition introduced in class)

  2. From a computer science perspective, what will be the hardest challenge in trying to create true AI (as you defined it above)? Be as specific as you can.

  3. How likely do you think it is that you will see true artificial intelligence (however you defined it above) created within your lifetime?

  4. What is your motivation for taking this class? Are there any specific topics that interest you with regards to AI?

  5. For which of the terms below, if asked, could you give an explanation or definition:
    • stacks, queues, and priority queues
    • derivative (calculus)
    • gradient (calculus)
    • chain rule (calculus)
    • random variable
    • expected value
    • joint distribution
    • marginal distribution
    • marginalization
    • normalization
    • conditional distribution
    • dot product (linear algebra)
    • projection of one vector onto another (linear algebra)
    • ||x|| where x is a vector (linear algebra)
    • x/||x|| (linear algebra)

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