COSC343 Resources

General Resources

Turing's seminal article Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Mind 236:433-460, 1950)

Some recent AI systems:

TOPIO: a table tennis robot
a violin-playing robot
A robot car driver (Otago CS graduate Dave Ferguson was lead programmer for planning!)
Google's unmanned vehicle (start at 2:00)
Deep Blue beating Gary Kasparov in 1997
An AI program which proved a mathematical theorem
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In Zia Mahmood's book, Bridge, My Way (1992), Zia offered a $1M bet that no 4-person team of his choosing would be beaten by a computer. A few years later the bridge program GIB, brainchild of American computer scientist Matthew Ginsberg, proved capable of expert declarer plays like winkle squeezes in play tests. In 1996, Zia withdrew his bet. Two years later, GIB became the world champion in computer bridge, and also defeated the vast majority of the world's top bridge players from the 1998 Par Contest (including Zia Mahmood). However, such a par contest measures technical bridge analysis skills only, and in 1999 Zia beat various computer programs, including GIB.

Some Turing-test candidates:

Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig's online AI course. (You can only access it as a 'visitor' now, but there are still some interesting videos.)