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+#History of Artificial Intelligence
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+### Definition
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+Artificial Intelligence is a discipline with some goals, such as:
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+- solving complex problems
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+And these goals are reached by *artificial agents* that *think* as humans
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+There is a lack of unique and universally accepted definition.
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+A proposed definition is in the following schema
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+|Think as humans|Think rationally|
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+|Act as humans|Act rationally|
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+### History
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+__General Problem Solver__ (or GPS) is a program developed by A. Newell and H. Simon
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+and it is an attempt of reproducing the human ratinal process.
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+__Alan Turing__ wrote a paper "computing machinery and intelligence" that focused not
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+only on intellectual processes but mainly in acting processes.
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+Turing Test is based on evaluating a machine only looking at its behaviour and not its internals.
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+__Aristotle__ defined human beings as rational animals.
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+We as human being are constantly feeling the gap between intentions and actions and is
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+related to free will (libero arbitrio)
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+#### Acting rationally
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+Is explaines by means of a *rational agent*
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+### Artificial Intelligence
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+Is a young and constantly varying discipline, for example in the 1990's making chess playing programs
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+was at the edge of the discipline while now the actual goals are like making a robot move in an unknown space.
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+AI is also between __Science__ and __Engineering__ while the second part is prevalent today, the first part
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+is the one that give birth to it.
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+#### The origin
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+The origin can be reconducted to the tradition of humans trying to create similar of themselves.
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+- Heron of Alexandria
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+Was the first creator of Semiauthomatic machines called autòmatha (Che destano meraviglia)
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+And he was both a matemathician and an engineer
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+- Ramon Lull: was a philosopher who wanted to build a machine that is able to reproduce the
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+human process of tought, he called this machine "Ars inveniendi veritatem" and
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+with this he tried to prove that there is only one truth and this truth is the cristian one.
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+The important idea that Lull introduces is the necessity of representing our knowledge in a symbolic way
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+and deriving knowledge without altering the initial concepts (like modern first order logic)
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+Lull built this machine and went to north africa to convert muslims using this machine but he got killed there.
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+Leibniz also tried to create a formal system to obtain truth with a tool (he would have used is to win discussions agains Newton)
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+Babbage
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+Boole is the creator of the agebrization of logic, inventing the propositional logic
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+Frege invented the first order logic while the notation we use today is from Peano
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+### The precursors
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+The precursors comes both from 1940 and are the following:
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+- Computer Engineering
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+The first computers were built like Z3 or Eniac.
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+- Cybernetics
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+Was a discipline devoted to communication and control of regulatory feedbacks both in living being and machines.
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+The official birth of Artificial Intelligence was at a workshop in summer 1956 and the object was in ten years
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+to build a machine that can simulate human learning or intelligence.
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+In 1969 the neural networks model was heavily criticized by Minsky and as a result had a stop in research
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+In 1966 during the cold war the fundings were lessened and there was a crisis of artificial intelligence
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+The only funded project by the government was machine translation but lacking notions of linguistics, they build only a semantic translator.
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+After 1969 *Expert systems* were introduced, and were meant as systems supporting human experts in a particular field.
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+During this years Language translators were improves as semantic+syntactic.
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+From 1980 to today AI vecame an industry and the biggest tech companies became interested.
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+In 1986 neural networks were rediscovered, in particular back-propagation was reinvented by four different research groups.
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+This is a type of sub-symbolic approach
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+The last step introduces the idea of *intelligent agents* and particularly on groups of agents.
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