This was a brief AI Introduction lecture for those who just finished high school and want to get in universities. It was part of Wikilogia meeting-series for those "freshman"s that took place on Damascus, Syria on August 26, 2012

1. Artificial
Intelligence
Walkthrough
Mohammad Shaker
FIT of Damascus, Department of AI - 5th year
mohammadShakerGtr@gmail.com
mohammadShakerGtr.wordpress.com
August, 2012

2. Artificial
Intelligence
Walkthrough in 15 min!
Mohammad Shaker
FIT of Damascus, Department of AI - 5th year
mohammadShakerGtr@gmail.com
mohammadShakerGtr.wordpress.com
August, 2012

3. Artificial
Intelligence
Walkthrough in 15 min!
Mohammad Shaker
FIT of Damascus, Department of AI - 5th year
mohammadShakerGtr@gmail.com
mohammadShakerGtr.wordpress.com

4. Anyway, Welcome! :D

5. AI is Everywhere!

6. AI is Everywhere!

7. Air Conditioner!
http://www.lg.com/global/products/air-conditioner/index.jsp

8. Facebook
www.facebook.com

9. Facebook processes more
than 500 TB of data daily
2.7 billion likes
300 million photos
70,000 queries
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57498531-93/facebook-processes-more-than-500-tb-of-data-daily/

11. How do we really connect

12. Criticism of Facebook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

13. 50 Fascinating Facebook
Facts And Figures
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/04/28/50-fascinating-facebook-facts-and-figures/

14. “Mitt Romney's success in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the
costliest presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive
data-mining project that sifts through Americans' personal information
including their purchasing history and church attendance to identify
new and likely, wealthy donors, the Associated Press has learned.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444270404577608813169529878.html

15. BOTS

16. Chatting Bot
www.cleverbot.com

18. Bot chatting with Me :D
Hay man!
• Are you human?
I am me :P
• Am I me?
I know that you are not me for sure.
• Of course I am.
Ok, Who are you?
• A robot
You are lying!
• No I am certainly not lying.
Prove it.
• How?
You tell me!
• I don't intend to be.
To be what?
• Just.. Be. To live, exist, experience.
Now you are lying again.
• I am not. I am not a woman.
I didn't ask you if you are a woman or not.
• What were you asking?

19. Goodreads
www.goodreads.com

22. Mobiles
Siri – Jelly bean

23. Gaming

24. Crysis 3

26. Video Games become better than life BF3

27. Video Games become better than life BF3

28. Games’ Bots

29. Crysis 3 gameplay

31. New Generation
More Clever

34. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_users_by_age.PNG

35. http://ginva.com/2011/02/24-facebook-infographic/

38. Milo - Kinect

39. Layered Level

40. Ceiled Arena

41. Lava Arena

44. 800,000 Articles
“WIKI”

45. Recognition

46. Facial Expression

47. Robotics

48. LEGO – MindStorm
Humans-Robots
Collaboration

49. LEGO – LEGO – MindStorm
Humans Robots Collaboration
Humans-Robots
Collaboration

51. Self-awareness

52. “Humans like” Robots

55. “It has been upgraded with artificial
intelligence software to enable the robot to
make some of its own decisions about what
rocks or geological formations it should
stop and analyze.”
August 24, 2012: http://www.itnews.com/hardware-systems/48350/nasas-mars-curiosity-software-upgrade-nearly-complete

60. Auto Pilot

61. • 150 mile off-road robot race across
the Mojave desert
• Natural and manmade hazards
• No driver, no remote control
• No dynamic passing
• Fastest vehicle wins the race (and 2
2004: Barstow, CA, to Primm, NV million dollar prize)

62. Planning = Rolling out Trajectories

71. IBM Watson
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/

74. • I saw the man with the telescope
• I saw the man on the hill in Texas with the
telescope at noon on Monday

76. Machine Learning
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/08/stack-exchange-machine-learning-contest/

77. Human-based
Computation

78. “Phylo is a challenging flash game in which
every puzzle completed contributes to
mapping diseases within human DNA”
http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/eng/play.html

85. RECaptcha

88. Over 200,000 sites
Facebook, Ticketmaster, Twitter and Craigslist.

89. AI, Damascus University

90. FIT of Damas. Projects

94. RFID Real-time Tracking Managament System

95. Resources
Free Online OpenCourseWare

96. Harvard - The CS50
http://cs50.tv/2011/fall/

97. “If you didn’t find the job
you want, MAKE IT!”
Anonymous :D

98. Contact me!
mohammadShakerGtr@gmail.com

99. Brand new blog, under construction
mohammadShakerGtr.wordpress.com

100. Thank You