13 Jan 05
CS 3243 - Lecture 1a
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State of the art
lDeep Blue defeated the reigning world chess champion
Garry Kasparov in 1997
lProved a mathematical conjecture (Robbins conjecture)
unsolved for decades
lNo hands across America (driving autonomously 98% of the
time from Pittsburgh to San
Diego)
lDuring the 1991 Gulf War, US forces deployed an AI
logistics planning and scheduling
program that involved up to 50,000 vehicles,
cargo, and people
lNASA's on-board autonomous planning program controlled
the scheduling of operations
for a spacecraft
lProverb solves crossword puzzles better than most humans