Introduction to AI

People aren't really very smart anyway.

Books:
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

Tutorials in lisp run weeks 3 - 9.
Functional Programming.

As a field, it is an investigation of intelligence.
Applying computers to model/implement such intelligence.
Founded by Alan Turing in the 1950's, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence".
The early founders were optimistic about when it would come about though.

Going to the moon was in itself not really very productive, but the spin offs of communication, miniturisation, that came from it were very practical.

That's why society has genuine interest in AI research. Machine translation is one of them, data mining comes out of machine learning. All pretty useful. AI for game programming.

But what on earth is intelligence!?
Humans are our current best example of intelligence in the universe. But we don't get things right ALL the time.

Intelligent agents have to be able to learn

Cognitive Science is an interrelated field.
Creativity.... is this artificially possible?

What is intelligence? We don't really know, it's as equaloly contentious as it was in Aristotle's time.

My question is, if we don't even know what intelligence is, how can we even hope to create an artificial intelligence? Are we hoping to stumble upon it somewhere along the way?