Exam 15: Artificial Intelligence

The ____ test tests to see if a machine exhibits behavior indistinguishable from a human.

What does the Turing test allow?

Describe the strategies that characterize robotics research.

Proponents of the reactive strategy of robotics argue that a robot cannot react meaningfully without processing the stimulus and planning a reaction based on its internal representation of the environment. _________________________

A neuron is a cell capable of receiving stimuli, in the form of electrochemical signals, from other neurons through its many dendrites.

A brute force approach is commonly used for intelligent chess-playing strategy.

The term ____ means the language of formal logic.

Computers fall below humans where there seems to be a high level of complexity and perhaps approximation or ambiguity.

The human brain uses a ____ architecture, characterized by a large number of simple "processors" with multiple interconnections.

Each ____________________ can be thought of as an extremely simple computational device with a single on/off output.

The term ____ means "method of assertion."

Provide at least three examples of an intelligent agent.

What are the required components of an expert system?

Computational tasks are tasks for which accurate answers need not be found. _________________________

Cause and effect relationships are translated into "for every" statements. _________________________

A(n) ____________________ language sacrifices richness of expression for precision of expression.

At periodic time intervals, ____ technology downloads updated, personalized information on your screen.

In a neural network, both the knowledge representation and also the "programming" are stored in the network itself as the weights of the connections and the thresholds of the neurons.

Prolog is a(n) ____________________ programming language.

A ____ for a search algorithm illustrates the possible next choices of items to search if the current item is not the target.