6 Pages Essay Based On the Presentation PPT

CSE 170 Winter 2020

02/20/20

Artificial Intelligence ​and its Applications

Ira Pohl, Professor Emeritus UCSC, Fellow of the ACM

Abstract​:

Artificial Intelligence is considered one of the three major trends bringing us the technological “Singularity”. We will discuss its origins, key ideas, important results, and the current state of the art. We will also talk about the societal impacts: such as the consequences of a robotically driven economy, and AI tools making significant decisions such as when to shoot at the “enemy” on a chaotic battlefield.

About the speaker:

Professor Pohl is well known for AI theory connected to heuristic search and more recently for programming in C++ MOOCs for Coursera.

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