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Notes on, '''chpt. 1'''

Notes on the structure of whole the book are at Artificial intelligence/Textbook survey.

Philosophy and definition (p. 2-5)
 * Turing test (p. 2, 4-5)
 * Embodiment (p. 2)
 * Searle (p. 3-4)
 * Physical symbol system hypothesis (p. 4)

Approaches to AI p. 6-7
 * GOFAI p. 6
 * Logical AI p. 6
 * Knowledge based AI p. 6
 * Sub-symbolic p. 7 (He calls it the "second group") as "Bottom up" p. 6-7
 * Brooks p. 7
 * Moravec's paradox p. 7
 * Emergent behaviour p. 7

History of AI p. 8-11
 * Early checkers and chess p. 8
 * Dartmouth conference p. 8. Other names considered at Dartmouth: "complex information processing" "machine intelligence" "heuristic programming" "cognology"
 * History of formal reasoning: Aristotle, Ramon Lull's Ars Magna, Liebniz' calculus rationcinator, Boole's logic. p. 8
 * Advice taker, logic as foundation of AI p. 8
 * Cordell Green's system 8-9 (Does this agree with Wikipedia when it attributes this work to "McCarthy and his students"? Was Green a student of McCarthy's?)
 * Godel, Church, Kleene, Post, Turing p. 8
 * Cook, Karp, NP-Complete, p. 9 (One sentence)
 * Lucas & Penrose's critique p. 9
 * "Cybernetics" Pitts & McCrullough, Perceptrons p. 9 (other ideas around the same time: Chomsky, control theory Widrow & Hoff)
 * Successful 60s programs: GPS 1959 & 1963, Slagle's integrator 1963, Bobrow's STUDENT 1968, Evans Analogy program 1968, Feignenbaum's influential Computers and Thought
 * Can't scale up, only "toy problems" p. 9-10
 * Knowledge revolution p. 10: DENDRAL
 * Game playing pt. 2 Kasparov vs. Deep Blue p. 10
 * Vision under Marr p. 10
 * SHRDLU Winograd 1972 p. 10
 * CYC p. 10
 * Revival of neural networks p. 11