Questions & Answers (of my opinion) :

  • What is intelligence ?
  • How did intelligence emerge (in human being), from evolution and growth?

Questions (Pei Wang’s answer):

  • What is AI ? (what is intelligence ?)
  • Can AI be built ?
  • How to build AI ?
  • Should AI be built ?

Research in AI (based on the brief of Pei Wang’s answer):

  1. a general theory of intelligence.
  2. a formal model of intelligence.
  3. an intelligent computer system.

1. Information System

This chapter introduces the basic terminology used in this book to describe various systems.

1.1 Defining “information system”

An information system is a system whose internal activities and interactions with its environment can be described abstractly in terms of state changes, without specifying the concrete entity and process that carries out the activities and interactions.