Artificial Intelligence – Resources
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Definition as per John McCarthy
Stanford University Link- https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai.pdf
It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.
Alan Turing’s early discourse on the Idea of Artificial Intelligence –
University of Maryland link: https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf
Intelligent behaviour presumably consists in a departure from the completely disciplined behaviour involved in computation, but a rather slight one, which does not give rise to random behaviour, or to pointless repetitive loops.
… We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Even this is a difficult decision. Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best.
Links to the most authoritative textbook on AI, Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig’s book – Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
UC Berkely site: https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/global-index.html
Third Edition pdf – Yale University: https://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs470/materials/aima2010.pdf