AI Overview Roy Turner Associate Professor of Computer Science, UMaine Department of Computer Science
What is artificial intelligence? • Area of computer science whose goal is to allow computers to: • do things that require intelligence • do things humans/animals easily do, but hard for computers • solve intractable problems on average more quickly • Enormous number of AI areas/techniques: • Automated reasoning: theorem proving, planning, scheduling • Intelligent agent control • Interpreting senses: natural language processing, computer vision • Knowledge based (expert) systems • Machine learning image: starline - www.freepik.com
What can AI do? • Web search • Intelligent control • Planning complex operations • Diagnostic reasoning • Natural language processing • Image understanding and generation • Sentiment analysis, etc., for social media • Data mining and analysis • …
Why AI now? Images from https://www.altair.com/big-data, By ChrisDag - Tesla/NVIDIA GPU cluster, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37119256, By Cecbur - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76640334
��������������������������������������� Why AI now? Predicted Economic Effect of A1 $ in Millions 1600000 1400000 1200000 1000000 800000 600000 400000 200000 0 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Czernich et al. Qiang and Rossotto Source: Perez et al., UK-RAS white paper on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
������������������������������������ Why AI now? Venture Capital Investment in AI Technology $ in Millions 2000 1750 1500 1250 1000 750 500 250 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Self Driving Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Total Natural Language Processing Image Recognition Machine Learning Source: Perez et al., UK-RAS white paper on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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