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CS 8520: Artificial Intelligence

Lab 1

Paula Matuszek

Fall, 2008

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• For each of the following URLs:– Explore it, try it out.

– Think about the following:• How would you program it?

• What kinds of algorithms and data does the program need?

• Would you consider the program intelligent?

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Games• Hunt the Wumpus at

http://scv.bu.edu/miscellaneous/games.html

• Dots and Boxes at

• http://www.well.com/user/argv/java/dots.html

• Zork at http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.phpz?cat=2&game=3&mode=html

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Games• What data and knowledge are needed to

program these three games?

• What algorithms?

• Do any of them show intelligent behavior?

• How do they differ?

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Chatbots• A.L.I.C.E. at http://alice.pandorabots.com

• The classic Eliza at http://nlp-addiction.com/chatbot/eliza

• The Jabberwacky bots at http://www.jabberwacky.com. (Note: there are several different bots there.)

• Chatbot? Or not? http://www.markconnell.com/mark/chat.asp

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Chatbots• What data and knowledge are needed to

program these bots?

• What algorithms?

• Do any of them show intelligent behavior?

• How do they differ?

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Machine Translation• http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl

=eng– Try

• http://www.amazon.co.jp• http://www.amazon.de• http://news.google.com/news?ned=es

• If you speak another language, try some translations to or from that language.

• If you don’t try translating something into another language and then back to English.

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Machine Translation• What data and knowledge are needed here?

• What algorithms?

• Does this show intelligent behavior?

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Robot Videos• Watch some of the robot videos at

http://www.newscientist.com/popuparticle.ns?id=in124

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Robot Videos• What data and knowledge are needed to

program these robots?

• What algorithms?

• Does this show intelligent behavior?