Artificial Intelligence

Contemporary AI is a very broad field, which encompasses an enormous range of motivations, techniques, and ideas. This course aims to equip students with a rigorous knowledge of the base techniques that constitute the field today. We start by understanding what the main aims of the field are, and introduce the 'standard model' of Russell and Norvig: that AI is concerned with building AI agents that will carry out tasks on our behalf. We go on to study how AI views problem solving, and the classic algorithmic foundations of problem solving based on search. We go on to study symbolic (logic-based) AI, problems of sequential decision making, and machine learning.