AI is Hard
March 26, 2008I just finished a 10-week project course in Artificial Intelligence at my university and I've found that AI is a lot harder than it appears on the second impression. I'll clarify why I said second impression later.
This was the second AI course I've taken, the first was an intro class which turned out to be pretty easy. For this AI project course, we were asked to pick our own topic and make our project proposals and explain how this is considered to be an advanced AI topic from our textbook. My topic was basically a Roomba clone, except it was purely a simulation and no actual hardware was involved. It turned out to perform pretty efficiently compared to the Roomba's demo video. Of course theirs is real and mine is a pure simulation.
