Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Big
Summary
With artificial intelligence, the intelligence lies less in the hardware and more in the software, and writing the code (algorithms) to make machines smarter. The computer algorithms really lie at the heart of making robots smart enough to carry out all the tasks that scientists – and eventually customers such as homemakers, will want them to do. Implementing these algorithms often requires that these programmers have a deep understanding both of computer science principles as well as robotic principles – how to move things around, and what different sensor readings are telling the robot about what’s out there in the world. Engineers building robots can often endow them with extra senses which people don’t have – for example a laser scanner that allows the robot to figure out what’s in front of it.
Keywords: terrametrics, artificial intelligence, intelligent robots, Andrew Ng, cognition, reasoning
