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8/31/18 Course Staff Artificial Intelligence Class 1: Course Overview • Professor: Dr. M • cmat@umbc.edu, ITE 331 • Office hours: M 10-11, W 9:30-10:30, or by appointment • Concepts from lectures, general concerns, projects … • TA: Erfan Noury Qaralajar, • erfan1@umbc.edu, ITE TBD • Office hours: TBD Dr Cynthia Matuszek (Dr M) • Homework assistance, coding assistance, general concerns… cmat@umbc.edu Slides adapted with thanks from: Dr. Marie desJardin; Dr. Tim Finin; Drs. Paula & David Matuszek 2 My Research Today: Intro & Overview • Robotics • Review of syllabus and schedule • How can we go from industrial robots to useful robots in • Academic honesty human environments? (Schools, cars, homes…) • Expectations • Natural Language Processing • How can computers learn to understand and speak human • Brief history of AI languages (English)? • What is AI? (and why is it so cool?) • Artificial intelligence • What’s the state of AI now? • How to get computers to behave in ways that we would From handout: consider to be “intelligent” • Topics we’ll cover http://tiny.cc/ai-schedule http://tiny.cc/ai-class • Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) • What is ‘intelligence’? http://tiny.cc/ai-piazza 3 4 Classroom Policies A little bit of stern stuff Grading These policies are firm. Don’t ask me to make exceptions after the fact; • Grades in Blackboard • Be courteous to classmates and instructors. Class participation 5% don’t fuss about something • Know your grades Midterm 15% being “just a little” late; • No devices in use except when specified. but also don’t blame your internet. Homework 30% • Keep track of what’s left • You don’t learn as much. Quizzes and surveys 2% • People around you don’t learn as much. • Grade questions: Project 28% • 24-hour “cooling” period • http://tiny.cc/devices-in-class Final exam 20% • No food or drink in this classroom. • Grade changes/regrades: Pop quiz: Can Dr M add? • Requests to professor and TA • Water is fine. • TA cannot change grades! 5 6 1

8/31/18 Participation 5-6 Homework Assignments • Attend class. • Written, problem set, and programming • The program (and I) expect you • Due at 11:59pm the day before class to be here for the whole semester. • Late: 25% off /day • Speak up. • Answer questions • Assignments will be turned in electronically • Ask questions • Blackboard / online forms / email • Tell us your thoughts • Assignment will specify • There are lots of opportunities to talk here! • 10% penalty for not following turn-in instructions • Be active on Piazza. • Example: Wrong file type • Ask and answer questions. • Questions? Piazza, then TA • Post links to interesting material. 7 8 Time Management Some Advice • Some things can be rescheduled • Grad School is a hard transition • E.g., overlapping exams • Everyone is smart now! • If enough people have them • New expectations about writing, time management, and behavior • Individual extensions may be given: • I know you don’t believe me right now; that’s cool 1. With reasonable cause 2. When made in advance • Moving to a new place/field is hard • Please talk to me! • There’s a lot we can do to help – if we know. 9 10 Reading Academic Integrity • Pre-readings: Do these before that class • Instructor’s responsibilities: • Be respectful • First ~10 minutes will be Q&A about them • Be fair • Readings: Do these after class • Be available • Tell the students what they need to know and how they • More detail on concepts will be graded • Students’ responsibilities: • Be respectful • Do not cheat, plagiarize, or lie, or help anyone else do so • Do not interfere with other students’ academic activities 11 12 2

8/31/18 Academic Integrity Policy Integrity: Plagiarism • “By enrolling in this course, each student assumes the • Representing someone else’s work as responsibilities of an active participant in UMBC’s your own is plagiarism. scholarly community, in which everyone’s academic work and behavior are held to the highest standards • What if the reference is in the bibliography? of honesty. Cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, and • If you didn’t explicitly quote the text you used and helping others to commit these acts are all forms cite the source where you used the text, it is of academic dishonesty, and they are wrong. plagiarism. Academic misconduct could result in disciplinary • What if I only use some of the words? action that may include, but is not limited to, suspension or dismissal.” • Scattering some of your own words and rephrasing isn’t enough. If the ideas are not restated entirely in [Statement adopted by UMBC’s Undergraduate Council and Provost’s OfFice] your own words, it is plagiarism. 13 14 Integrity: Plagiarism Integrity: Abetting • More Examples • This includes putting someone’s name on • The introduction and background material are something when they didn’t work on it. borrowed; all of the research is original. • “This is just everyone on our team” is wrong. • If somebody else’s words appear in any document that you claim is written by you, it is plagiarism. • Know what your project partners are doing. • It was a draft or not an official assignment • Their cheating can hurt you. • If you represented somebody else’s words as your own, • Helping another student to cheat, falsify, or even in an informal context, it is plagiarism. • “But the professor told me to use that source!” plagiarize will result in you receiving the same • Unless you are explicitly told to copy a quote from a penalty . source, you must write your answers in your own words. 15 16 Integrity: What To Do Integrity: Penalties • Penalties depend on the offense and whether it recurs • You can always bring it to me. • The minimum penalties are: • Cheating from you / in your group / etc.: • Receiving a zero on an assignment • You may talk to them about it first • Being required to redo the assignment, without credit, in • Unless it’s too late (it’s been turned in, the test is over) order to pass the class • Then you are abetting unless you report • Additional penalties may include: • Some people may get sneakier instead of improving • Receiving a full grade reduction in the class • Failing the class without possibility of dropping it • You do not have to talk to anyone but me. • Suspension or expulsion from the university 17 18 3

8/31/18 About Groupwork Availability & Communication • Study groups are encouraged ! • Post all questions to Piazza (unless it violates integrity) • Talking about the homework is completely acceptable • We will try to respond to Piazza posts immediately • Just don’t share code • Email takes 24-48 hours • Programming must be done individually • Always send email to professor and TA • Programs must be written entirely by you • Piazza, then TA, then prof+TA • Copying another person’s code is never acceptable • Office hours • You can help debug • Drop by when my door is open • Some homework is for 2-3 students working together • The assignment will say so; otherwise, it’s individual. • If I’m busy (often), we’ll make an appointment • I will remain after class when I can 19 20 Schedule What is AI? • You will check this pretty much every class 22 21 Artificial Intelligence “Intelligence” is Problematic • Key types • These are problematic. • Strong AI: mental/thought capabilities equal to • How do we measure it? (or better than) human • What’s an ‘intelligent action’? • Weak (bounded) AI: intelligent actions or • In practice, ‘previously human only’ reasoning in some limited situations • Is there something ineffable missing? • “Human-level” intelligence • What? • In what situation? • Internally? • How do we test? • Self-awareness / Consciousness 23 24 4