AI Regulation Summary 2020/2021
Summaries: Law and Technology LLM Tilburg University
Academic Year: 2020-2021
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REFERENCE LIST
LECTURE 1
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LECTURE 4
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LECTURE 6
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LECTURE 7
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Lecture 1: Introduction
AI is... (depending how you want to look at it)
• Field of research
• A set of technologies
• Philosophical thought experiment
• Rhetorical tool (distinguish technologies or projects from each other, to gain funding)
• A hype
History of AI
Two parts:
1950s-1980s (AI as a field of research, thought experiments)
1980s-today (AI as a technology to be applied in practice)
Turing Test: when Alan Turing published a paper where he reconsiders the question ‘can machines
think’
- Does not enters into a philosophical debate, but proposes that in order to answer the question
we should empirically test it
- Thought experiment called as the Turing test: the point is that a computer locked in a room tries
to prove that it is a human being, interaction takes place via chat
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI (1956)
- “The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other
feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to
simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form
abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve
themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems
if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer
- McCarthy: main organizer, credited with term ‘AI’
Symbolic rule-based AI
- Physical symbol system hypothesis: "A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient
means for general intelligent action."
- Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon
- By applying rules to symbols machines could present intelligence
- First idea, computationally inspired, idea to produce intelligent behavior
Some examples of symbolic AI
- ELIZA: would answer statements with a question (how humans can easily be tricked into
believing computers are intelligent)
- SHRDLU: program stacked cubes by human instructing it in simple sentences
Problems being addressed through symbolic AI
• Mathematical and logical reasoning
• Natural language processing
• Reasoning as search
• Problem solving– chess etc
• Common sense reasoning
Early AI research involved cognitive, thinking skills, natural language processing, problem solving...
The Frame Problem
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