Wrocław, Poland

Artificial Intelligence

Sztuczna inteligencja

Master's
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⇑Artificial Intelligence at PWr

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: computer science
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: pwr.edu.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
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a château does to its owner.
Nicolas Chamfort, Reflections, D. Parmée, trans. (London: 2003) #68
Intelligence
For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
Thomas Carlyle, Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs, London and Westminster Review (1838).
Artificial Intelligence
“Either,” he proceeds, “a great deal of action that has been called purely mechanical and unconscious must be admitted to contain more elements of consciousness than has been allowed hitherto (and in this case germs of consciousness will be found in many actions of the higher machines)—Or (assuming the theory of evolution but at the same time denying the consciousness of vegetable and crystalline action) the race of man has descended from things which had no consciousness at all. In this case there is no à priori improbability in the descent of conscious (and more than conscious) machines from those which now exist, except that which is suggested by the apparent absence of anything like a reproductive system in the mechanical kingdom.
Samuel Butler, Erewhon: Or, Over the Range (1872)
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