Research Area:
Artificial Intelligence
Description
Artificial intelligence is concerned with elucidating the principles behind intelligent behavior by creating artifacts (computer programs) that embody such principles. AI researchers at Brown tend to see probability and statistics as the primary mathematics in which these principles are to be expressed, while recognizing that various cognitive areas have quite different specifics. We also have a bias towards seeing the specific problems in which we are interested (e.g., vision, language, temporal reasoning, economic behavior, brain implants) as special instances of machine learning — that is, we believe that in a surprisingly wide variety of cases, the best way to get a program to solve some problem is to have it
learn to solve the problem. Thus AI researchers at Brown share not just a common set of problems but a substantial set of tools with which to approach them.
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