Philosophical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence

Students are required to have summarized ideas in the following topics:

1 Introduction

            1.1 What is AI

            1.2 Foundations of AI

            1.3 History of AI

            1.4 AI Application Areas

2 Intelligent Agents

            2.1 Agents & Environments

            2.2 Good Behavior

            2.3 The Nature of Environments

            2.4 The Structure of Agents

3 New Approaches to define AI

            3.1 Intelligence and the Physical System Hypothesis

            3.2 Neural Computing

            3.3 Agents, Emergence and Intelligence.

4 The Science of Intelligent Systems

            4.1 Psychological Constraints

            4.2 Epistemological Issues

            4.3 Situated Actors and the Existential Mind

5 Weak & Strong AI

            5.1 Can Machines Act Intelligently?

            5.2 Can Machines really Think?

6 AI: Current Issues and Future Directions

7 Ethics & Risks of Developing AI

8 Men and Machines

            8.1 Cybernetics

            8.2 The Identity of the Person: Cyber Men

            8.3 The Ultimate Difference: Emotion and Faith

References:

1. Luger, George F., Artificial Intelligence  4th ed. Pearson Education(Singapore) 1988

2. Russell, Stuart & Norvig, Peter, Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach 2nd ed. Pearson                                                             Education (Singapore) 2003

3. Rich, Elaine & Knight, Kevin, Artificial Intelligence  2nd ed. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing                                                      Company Limited, New Delhi, 2004

4. Patterson, Dan W., Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and  Expert System  Prentice-                                          Hall of India Private Limited, New  Delhi 2000

5. David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind in Search of a Fundamental Theory, Oxford                                                                      University Press, Chapter-  4(9)

5. Parfit, Derek             Reasons and Persons, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985

6. Science fiction movies like: AI, The Matrix and I Robot.