干货 | 数据库专家C.Mohan——人工智能的前世今生

作者：C.Mohan

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清华大学软件学院杰出访问教授C.Mohan为您讲解人工智能的前世今生。

C.Mohan

The first question I’d like to discuss is “what is artificial intelligence (AI)?” There is more to AI than just machine or deep learning. Actually, AI is a more comprehensive concept that includes machine learning as a part, which neural networks affiliate to, and deep learning is a much smaller area inside neural networks.

What is AI? There is an opinion that AI is code plus possibly special-purpose hardware. Where will have AI? The answer is wherever there is software. From the view of DARPA, AI is a programmed ability to process information. On a notional intelligence scale, ideal AI can show high capability in perceiving (rich, complex and subtle information) and reasoning (to plan and to decide), and relatively high learning ability to learn within an environment, however, no abstracting.

AI has been hyped these years, it is really an umbrella term for a set of related technologies. During the development of AI, some significant people and places cannot be ignored. Among the ACM Turing Awards for AI, there are 10 prize-winners in total, from 1969 Marvin Minsky for his central role in creating, shaping, promoting and advancing the field of AI to the latest Youshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun in 2018, they were awarded mutually for their conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Till now there has been three waves of AI revolution.AI had born in 1956’s Dartmouth Summer Workshop. In the first decade of AI, there were mainly focusing on Heuristic search for problem solving, syntactic computational linguistics, checker playing program. From 1965 to