Exercise

1. Try to figure what basic AI processes would be involved in the following:
   • Translating English sentences into, say, Japanese.
   • Teaching a child to subtract integers.
   • Solving a crossword puzzle.
2. Scan through The Handbook of AI volumes or some recent AI journal pick a survey of a given topic (e.g. some expert system, vision, planning, robotics etc.) and
   • analyse what basic AI processes are involved.
   • determine to which application domains they can/have be employed in.
   • determine the current state of understanding of the topic.
   • compare the current state of understanding to normal human abilities.