CSC421 Intro to AI - Unit 04 -
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Unit 04: Slides

Workplan

  1. Read AIMA Chapter sections 4.3,
  2. Do or at least think about exercises 4.11
  1. Read AIMA Chapter sections 4.3, 4.4
  2. Do or at least think about exercises 4.11, 4.14, 4.16

EXTRAS

Suggested book:

The blind watchmaker
Richard Dawkins

In addition to being a very interesting book about evolution and gentics contains some nice pictures of "artificial" creatures created using something like a genetic algorithm with the author as the "fitness" function.

AI movie:

Star wars (all episodes)

R2D2: my favorite robot character in a movie, C3PO is ok

Music played before lecture:

Opus 1 - Arthur Blythe (Focus)