The course will enable students to understand and evaluate major philosophical and technological discussions surrounding AI and its applications.

• the possibility of AI, strong/weak AI, Turing test
• Chinese rooms, symbol grounding, physicality
• scientific method, automated scientific discovery
• evolution of autonomous behavior, evolutionary psychology
• synthetic biology, organic computing
• foundations from neurobiology
• Turing-Church thesis, physical limits of computation
• hypercomputation and AI
• theories of consciousness
• free will, dualism
• intelligent agents and game theory
• direct brain machine interfaces, augmented cognition, mind reading
• nanotechnology, transhumanism, the singularity
• simulation hypothesis, virtual worlds
• quantum mechanics and observation
• social and intelligent agents, interaction, “laws of robotics”
• history and literature of AI and artificial agents

Materials

Course site on Google Sites: Foundations and Frontiers of AI