Poznań, Poland

Artificial Intelligence

Master's
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⇑Artificial Intelligence at PP

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: computer science
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.put.poznan.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Artificial Intelligence the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A new paper claims a big improvement over existing models. What do you do?

2. Your model does brilliantly on the test set but fails once deployed. How do you react?

3. How do you feel about the maths behind AI – linear algebra, probability and optimisation?

4. You discover your model gives systematically worse results for one group of people. What do you do?

5. The programme is taught in English, with classmates from different countries and technical backgrounds. How do you see that?

6. How do you approach testing a new idea for a model?

7. AI is more than deep learning – it also covers planning, search, reasoning and reinforcement learning. How does that sound?

8. Your Master’s thesis could propose a genuinely new method. How do you feel?

9. A manager wants to launch your AI system next week, but you know its limitations. What do you do?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals. In computer science AI research is defined as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving".
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Intelligence
We really seek intelligence not for the answers it may suggest to the problems of life, but because we believe it is life,—not for aid in making the will of God prevail, but because we believe it is the will of God. We love it, as we love virtue, for its own sake, and we believe it is only virtue’s other and more precise name.
John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent (1915), pp. 26-27
Artificial Intelligence
The ability to interact with a computer presence like you would a human assistant is becoming increasingly feasible.
Vint Cerf, a "father of the internet," in "Your Life: Vinton Cerf" interview by David Frank in AARP Bulletin (December 2016, Vol. 57, No. 10, p. 30.)
Intelligence
She had found the answer to her affliction—conformity! She had already learned to conceal her intelligence. So many of us break our hearts before we learn that.
Mark Clifton, in Star, Bright. Originally published in Galaxy magazine (July 1952); collected in Fadiman (ed.) The Mathematical Magpie, p. 75
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