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Overview

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title: IE502014 Artificial Intelligence - Overview
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# Key topics

| Session | Topic  | Reading | Keywords |
| :- | :- | :- | :- |
| 1 | [Introduction]()    | R&N Ch. 1 | What is intelligence?  Is AI possible? |
| 2 | [Rational Agents]() | R&N Ch. 2 | Instrumental reason, practical reason, etc. |
| 3 | [Search]() | R&N Ch. 3.1-3.4 | Search and Problem Solving|
| 4 | [Heuristic Search]() | R&N Ch. 3.5-3.7 | Heuristic Search |
| 5 | [Complex Environments]() | R&N Ch. 4 | Local Search, Partional Information etc. |
| 6 | [Adversarial Search]() | R&N Ch. 6 | Game Theory |
| - | Midterm | | 21-25 February - own work |
| 7 | [Optimisation and GA]() | H&H Chapter 1-2 | Genetic Algoritms|
| 8 | [GA]() | H&H Chapter 3-4 | Genetic Algoritms|
| 9 | [Game Theory]() | | Game Theory, Simulation, Genetic Algorithm |
| 10 | [Machine Learning and Statistics]() | ?? | |
| 11?? | ?? | R&N Chapter 16 | Eirik |
| 12?? | ?? | R&N Chapter 23 | Eirik |
| - | Easter | | 11-18 April - holiday |
| 13?? | ?? | ?? | Eirik |
| 14 | [AI Ethics]() | | Immplementation of ethical constraints |
1.  Ethics.
    1.  What is intelligence?
        - what is artificial intelligence?
        - is artificial intelligence at all possible?
    2.  Concerns about AI
    3.  Machine Morality
2.  Intelligence Agents
    - Search and Optimisation
3.  Evolutionary Algorithms

Considering
*Note*  There are other modules on machine learning, so this 
remains out of scope.

+ R&N Chapter 7: Logical Agents
+ R&N Chapter 12: Acting under Uncertainty
# Semester Plan

| Session | Topic  | Reading | Keywords |
| :- | :- | :- | :- |
| 1 | [Introduction]() | | What is intelligence?  Is AI possible? |
| 2 | [Rational Agents]() | | Instrumental reason, practical reason, etc. |
| 3 | [Search]() | | Search and Problem Solving|
| - | [AI Ethics]() | | Immplementation of ethical constraints |
| 14 | [Review]() | | Return to Session 1.  In what sense is AI possible? |