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Lecture 2: Reasoning: Goal Trees and Problem Solving
- Course
- Artificial Intelligence
- Instructor
- Patrick H. Winston
- Department
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Recorded
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
Free account required. The lecture opens at MIT OpenCourseWare.
About this lecture
This lecture covers a symbolic integration program from the early days of AI. We use safe and heuristic transformations to simplify the problem, and then consider broader questions of how much knowledge is involved, and how the knowledge is represented.
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