Foundations of Building Intelligent Artifacts: Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Artificial intelligence, intelligent artifacts, and problem solving

Objectives

After this chapter you should be able to

Discuss the main issues and problems of artificial intelligence, respectively of building intelligent artifacts.
Explain Gigerenzer's model of data analysis and give examples for each stage.
Give examples of declarative and procedural knowledge and explain their differences.
Name various types of problems and give examples for each type.
Exemplify Polya's stages of problem solving.
Describe the problem interpolation process with suitable examples.

Key words:

Domain, operationalisation, empirical model, representation, numerical model, heuristics, declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, incompleteness, redundancy, ambiguity, problem to find, problem to prove, generalisation, specialisation, analogy, interpolation problems.

Supplementary material

What is AI?

The modelling process

Georg Polya

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