Goals of AI

• Replicate human intelligence

  "AI is the study of complex information processing problems that often have their roots in some aspect of biological information processing. The goal of the subject is to identify solvable and interesting information processing problems, and solve them." -- David Marr

• Solve knowledge-intensive tasks

  "AI is the design, study and construction of computer programs that behave intelligently." -- Tom Dean

• Understand the connection of perception and action

• Enhance human-human, human-computer and computer-computer interaction/communication

  Computer can sense and recognize its users, see and recognize its environment, respond visually and audibly to stimuli. New paradigms for interacting productively with computers using speech, vision, natural language, 3D virtual reality, 3D displays, more natural and powerful user interfaces, etc. (See, for example, projects in Microsoft's "Advanced Interactivity and Intelligence" group.)