Why Artificial Intelligence and Computers?
• Why computers? • Everything is run by computers at NASA … almost. • Computers are great at handling things which happen very fast, very slow, or where the same thing is repeated over and over again. • Computers can handle lots of information (data) • Often a lot easier to build a computer model than to build the real thing. Virtual Wind Tunnels • But humans can do a lot that computers can’t … yet • What is AI and why do it? • “Computers that do things that people do” … sort of. • “Advanced computer programs built in special ways” • Some of this stuff makes your video games fun to play. • The smarter the computers, the more we humans can do. • Some things are easier for computers, other things are easier for humans. When we combine them, amazing things can happen. • What did the AI do in this experiment? • It ran the experiment. If there was a problem, it had to realize that. If it realized there was a problem, it had to figure a way around the problem. NOTE: The NASA center you d
