Prof. Christopher L. Dancy
Office: Dana 340
Phone: 570.577.1907
Office Hours: T 11-12, W 3-4, and By Appt - My calendar
How can we build artificial minds? What do we need to represent and how do we represent it? How can we make them learn, and perceive in an environment? How can we use the way people think to design these minds? What about the environment, how should it affect an intelligent agent?
In this course, I will give you some tools to provide some answers to these questions. Ultimately, as with most endeavors this difficult, we will come up short. But fear not! You will have an opportunity to explore past answers to these questions and learn from them. Furthermore you will have an opportunity to use the thinking, techniques, and tools you learn in this course and in the future!
This course will not provide full coverage of AI and Cognitive Science for this would almost certainly be impossible given the time! These fields are big with many theories, subfields, and applications. This course will focus on the AI approach that thinks the way people think. (Though, thankfully no one will create anything close to the Ava in "Ex Machina"!)
Unless otherwise specified, a due date means due on that date by 11:55pm