1. Artificial Intelligence By Ryan Shoultes & Jeremy Creighton

2. What is Artificial Intelligence A branch of computer science that studies how to endow computers with capabilities of human intelligence. We describe an artificial brain, a robot brain that learns (Also called a Cognitive Architecture or an Intelligent System or an Adaptive Autonomous Agent).

3. AI is the branch of computer science concerned with making computers behave like humans. AI includes… game playing: programming computers to play games such as chess and checkers natural language : programming computers to understand natural human languages

4. expert systems : programming computers to make decisions in real-life situations (for example, some expert systems help doctors diagnose diseases based on symptoms) neural networks : Systems that simulate intelligence by attempting to reproduce the types of physical connections that occur in animal brains robotics : programming computers to see and hear and react to other sensory stimuli

5. So AI Is Basically… a digital computer or computer-controlled robot device to perform tasks commonly associated with the higher intellectual processes characteristic of humans The ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience in a machine.

6. References http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/gamesre search.html http://www.gameai.com/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs141/lectur es/intro.pdf