1. Introduction

12th, Sept.

1.1. History of AI

reference

  • Winter
  • Rapid development from 80s
    • genetic algorithm
    • Neural network
  • 90s second winter
    • Neural network performs bad

1.2. What is intelligence

  • Theoratically: Feeling, thought, cognition of human

1.3. Application

  • Problem solution: Go
  • NLP: speech recognition
  • CV
  • Robotics
  • Data mining

Problem solution

  • Chess
    • 1962: program beats human in checkers
    • 1991: Deep Thought 2 1:1 Champion in Australia
    • 1996: Deep Blue 2:4 Chess master
    • 1997: Deeper Blue 3.5:2.5 Chess master
    • 2015: AlphaGo 5:0 Europe champion

NLP

  • Speech synthesis (text-to-speech)
    • Phoneme, sentence
    • Well studied
    • Rich expression
    • Individuation
  • Speech recognition
    • Difficulties: large vocabulary, no specific person, continuous speech (eg: tian an men)
    • Dialect
    • Product: Google, Microsoft, Baidu, iflytek
  • Understanding
    • Word processing
    • Paragraph processing
      • Pronoun replace

1.4. Useful resources

Online AI book