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Lecture 28: The Future of AI

Lecture 28: The Future of AI

AIMA Chapter 28 — 1 hour

Learning Objectives

  • Synthesize AI components: perception, reasoning, learning

  • Consider paths to artificial general intelligence

  • Discuss AI engineering and deployment

  • Reflect on societal impact

AI Components

  • Perception: Sensors, vision, language

  • Representation: State, knowledge

  • Reasoning: Logic, probability

  • Action: Planning, control

  • Learning: From data, from experience

Integration

  • Modular: Separate components

  • End-to-end: Learn jointly

  • Hybrid: Symbolic + neural

General AI

  • Narrow AI: Specific tasks

  • AGI: Human-level across domains

  • Timeline: Uncertain

  • Approaches: Scale, architecture, new paradigms

AI Engineering

  • Deployment: Production systems

  • Monitoring: Drift, performance

  • Maintenance: Updates, retraining

Societal Impact

  • Benefits: Healthcare, education, science

  • Risks: Job loss, misuse, existential

  • Governance: Regulation, standards

Course Summary

  • Part I: Agents, search

  • Part II: Logic, knowledge

  • Part III: Uncertainty, probability

  • Part IV: Learning

  • Part V: NLP, vision, robotics

  • Part VI: Ethics, future

Thank You!

Questions?

End of AIMA Lecture Series