1. Choose a system that has an artificial intelligence component.

2. Briefly describe the artificial component of that system.

3. Choose one category (Thinking Humanly, Thinking Rationally, Acting Humanly, and Acting Rationally) from Figure 1.1 and write 1-2 paragraphs describing why some aspect of the your chosen AI supports or refutes that category.

4. Choose a second category (Thinking Humanly, Thinking Rationally, Acting Humanly, and Acting Rationally) from Figure 1.1 and write 1-2 paragraphs describing why some aspect of the your chosen AI supports or refutes that category.

Thinking Rationally Thinking Humanly The exciting new effort to make computThe study of mental faculties through the ers think machines with minds, in theuse of computational models." full and literal sense." (Haugeland, 1985)(Charniak and McDermott, 1985) "IThe automation of activities that we The study of the computations that make associate with human thinking, activitiesit possible to perceive, reason, and act." such as decision-making, problem solv-(Winston, 1992) ing, learning . . . (Bellman, 1978) Acting Humanly Acting Rationally The ant of creating machines that per- form functions that require intelligenceof the design of intelligent agents." (Poole when performed by people." (Kurzweil,et al., 1998) 1990) The study of how to make computers do "AI...is concerned with intelligent be- things at which, at the moment, people arehavior in artifacts." (Nilsson, 1998) better." (Rich and Knight, 1991) Computational Intelligence is the study Figure 1.1 Some definitions of artificial intelligence, organized into four categories