Artificial Intelligence Survey

Spring Semester 2021

Simon Fraser University

Instructor: Oliver Schulte

Inactive Links are Under Construction

Course Logistics

Office Location: TASC 1 9021. Zoom links will be distributed via email

Office Phone: 778-782-3390.

Office Hours: Public Office Hours W 4 pm-4:45 pm. Private Office Hours W 4:45 pm-5 pm

Email: myfirstname_mylastname@sfudotca

TA: Danoosh Chamani

TA's Email: TAfirstname_TAlastname@sfudotca

TA Office Hour AND Location: M 4 pm - 5 pm on Zoom.

Announcements

Class Format and Synchronicity

• My goal is to make the class as interactive as possible for a remote class.
  • Lectures will be synchronous, interactive, and recorded for later viewing.
  • The exam will have a synchronous component.
  • On-line quizzes will be in synch with classes and open for an extended window (e.g. 10 hours).
  • Zoom logs are the main component for assessing class participation. If you miss a class, you can make up for it by emailing a question on the class topic. For more details see below and the syllabus.
• Upcoming RL and Sports Analytics Talk

Wait List

• Please check the department's FAQ before emailing me.
• I do not have control over the wait list
• I am unlikely to agree with you joining the course after the first week.

Course Resources

• Schedule. Updated April 7, 2021.
• Syllabus. Updated January 18, 2021.
• Textbook website.
• The 24x7 on~-line book collection, for reference material.
• Installing Canvas Mobile. You need to install canvas to do the in-class quizzes.
• Zoom Meetings can be joined from within [the course canvas site.]
• On-line Quizzes can also be found from within the course canvas site. I will announce quizzes in class. You are responsible for monitoring the site to be aware of upcoming ones.
• SFU Medical Excuse Form.

Class Participation

• We will check attendance based on the zoom logs to see if you took part for most of the class
• I may give bonus points for exceptional participation (this will be rare).
• If you miss a class, you can email TA Danoosh one question that shows you reflected on the class content. E.g. "is the Chinese Room a version of the Turing test?" or "is Iterated Deepening guaranteed to terminate?".

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
  • Assignment 2 - exercises
  • Assignment 2 - coding
• Assignment 3
  • Assignment 3 - exercises. Updated March 23 with more information about the sigmoid function.
  • Assignment 3 - project
• Assignment 4
  • Assignment 4 - exercises
  • Assignment 4 - coding
  • Belief and Decision Networks - JAR File

Past Assignments Lecture Notes

Zoom lecture recordings are posted on Canvas.

• Chapter 1. Updated January 22, 2021.
• Chapter 2. Updated January 22, 2021.
• Introduction to Decision Theory. Updated January 12, 2017.
• Multiple Agents and Game Theory. Updated January 27, 2021.
• Chapter 4: Single Agents and Local Search. Updated February 9, 2021.
  • Spreadsheet with Example for Gradient Descent and Newton~-Raphson.
• Chapter 3: Single Agents: Uninformed Search. Updated February 22, 2021.
• Chapter 3: Single Agents: Informed Search. Updated March 1, 2021.
• Chapter 5: Multiple Agents and Adversarial Search. Updated March 8, 2021.
• Learning
  • Decision Trees. Updated March 15, 2021.
  • Artificial Neural Nets. Updated March 19, 2021.
  • Spreadsheet Example for Backpropagation.
• Chapter 22: Natural Language Processing. Useful for Assignment 3. Cross-validation. Updated March 22, 2021.
• Chapter 13: Probability and Reasoning Under Uncertainty Updated March 24, 2021.
• Chapter 14: Bayesian Networks. Updated March 23, 2018.
• Chapter 17: Markov Decision Processes.

Exam Resources

Exam Info

• Break down of topics and format.
• Taking the Exam Logistics.
• FAQs
  • Q: I don't have SFU ID. Can I use my Driver's Licence? A: Ok for the final considering the pandemic. But you should get an SFU ID.
  • Q: Do I need a webcam? A: Yes SFU final exam procedures instruct the students to keep their webcams on throughout the exam, and instruct me to check Student IDs using the webcam. I checked with the other CS faculty and they use this too. A webcam is a good thing to have for other purposes too, like job interviews and on-line get-togethers.
  • Q: What do you need to see on webcam? A: Basically yourself in your work environment. According to the instructions, I may also ask you to share your working screen.
  • Q: Various questions of the type: did you really mean what you said in the final exam slides? A: yes. For example it really is an open-book exam but not open neighbour (no copying).
  • Q: Did you record the review meeting? A: no.

Other Exams

• Sample Exam 1 from another course.
• Sample Exam 2 from another course.