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Neuroscience (Biology)
 and Psychology (Behavior)
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Experimental Psychology
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What is Artificial Intelligence?
  • The goal of Artificial Intelligence is to build “smart systems”
  • A “smart system” should pass Turing’s (1950) “Turing Test”:
    • An interrogator is connected to one person and one machine via a terminal, and therefore can't see her counterparts.
    • Her task is to find out which of the two candidates is the machine,
      and which is human only by asking them questions.
    • If the interrogator cannot make a decision within a certain time,
      the machine is considered to be intelligent.
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Deduction Vs. Induction
  • Deduction: Knowledge as Rules
      • Computer Programs
      • Databases
      • Symbolic (Computer) Logic
      • Rule-based Intelligent Systems
  • Induction: Learning from Experience
      • Humans
      • Artificial Neural Networks (“Connectionism”)
      • Adaptive Learning Algorithms
      • Statistical Learning Machines
      • Simulated Evolution (Evolutionary Learning)
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Human-Computer Interactions
(Usability Engineering)
  • Use Experimental Psychology to Evaluate and Design Web Sites, Computer Games, etc.


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So what is Cognitive Science?
  • Multidisciplinary Study of “Intelligent Systems”
  • Examples of Intelligent Systems
        • “Smart” Pencil Sharpeners
        • Insects
        • Dogs
        • People
        • “Data” (the robot) on Star Trek
        • Pac-Men (i.e., “video-game” creatures)
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Cars and Brains
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Automobile Science
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Cognitive Science
(selected key components)
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