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From: sag@hpctdje.HP.COM (Scott Godlew)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: What is your favorite definition of AI?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 14:07:12 GMT
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I have had the opportunity to present AI to primary and
secondary school educators in my area, and have used the
following outline.  These people are are sometimes computer
literate, but generally run a broad spectrum of "technical"
interest.  This part of my talk takes less than 5 minutes,
excluding questions and answers.  I'm sure this will leave out
some area of AI, but most non-AI people are satisfied with this
mangitude of discussion.


        What is AI?

        - Doing things like people do them:
            - decision making
            - problem solving
            - perception
            - planning
            - etc

        - Approaches:
            - use "actual" (theorized) human processes
            - use approximation techniques that give
              desired results
            - combinations

        - Distinction of Knowledge and Intelligence
            - most practical systems today are knowledge based
            - intelligence requires learning, awareness, etc.

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