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6. Can you explain the distinction made in the tape between
the mind and the brain? Why is this distinction important to
artificial intelligence (AI) researchers?
7. After viewing the tape, can you describe what kinds of
problems AI researchers are interested in? Be sure to give
examples.
8. What do AI researchers mean by the term common sense?
What are some of the examples of common sense discussed in the
tape?
9. Part of the tape deals with the difficulty AI researchers
have in building programs that use and understand natural
languages like English. Two problems mentioned were ambiguity and
common sense. Can you explain how and why these two problems make
language understanding difficult for a computer?
10. Two schools of AI were mentioned in the tape. Symbolic AI
views intelligence as a computational system that simulates
intelligence. They use the rules of logic and structures like
frames and scripts to model intelligence. Connectionist view
intelligence as patterns of neural firings in the brain. The
build neural networks to model intelligence. Herbert Dreyfus says
both schools of AI have problems. Discuss some of the problems
Dreyfus mentions in the tape.