FIT3080 Artificial intelligence

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Describe the historical and conceptual development of AI; foundational issues for AI, including the frame problem and the Turing test;

2. 2

   Explain, apply and evaluate the goals of AI and the main paradigms for achieving them including logical inference, search, machine learning and Bayesian inference;

3. 3

   Explain the social and economic roles of AI;

4. 4

   Describe, analyse, apply and evaluate heuristic AI for problem solving;

5. 5

   Describe, analyse and apply basic knowledge representation and reasoning mechanisms;

6. 6

   Describe, analyse and apply probabilistic inference mechanisms for reasoning under uncertainty;

7. 7

   Describe, analyse, apply and evaluate machine learning techniques;

8. 8

   Describe, analyse, apply and evaluate the use of the above techniques in different domain, specifically language technology.