Brief History of Computing Machinery

Philosophical Foundations of AI

• Cognitive Science
• Mind/body problem
• Turing machines

Symbolic Approaches to AI

• Natural language understanding
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Game playing
• "Physical symbol system" hypothesis

The Great AI Debate

• The Turing Test
• The Chinese Room thought experiment

Connectionist Approaches to AI

• Neural networks
• Machine learning

Artificial Life Approaches to AI

• Genetic algorithms
• Emergent behavior

Robots and Embodied AI

• Behavior-based robotics
• Computer vision

Machine Creativity

• Programs that paint and draw
• Programs that create music
• Programs that make analogies

Prospects for the Future

• AI in the movies
• The "Singularity"