Natural intelligence
Discover the concept of natural intelligence and its application in building machines. Explore the challenges in defining ‘natural’, ‘artificial’, and ‘living’ systems. Learn about ‘nouvelle AI’ and its contrast with Symbolic Al in this free course.
One goal of artificial intelligence is to build machines that can operate in the real world, with all its noise and uncertainty. Much of what we want machines to do (see, recognise, navigate, move, coordinate) is already done very well by simple creatures. In this free course, Natural intelligence, we look at how such creatures achieve these goals and start to understand how we can build machines with the same capabilities.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Write a short paragraph outlining a broad definition of natural intelligence, rooted in some of the features of natural systems
Give a number of examples of natural systems that seem to be purposeful, systematic and ordered
Give contrasting definitions of the words ‘natural’, ‘artificial’ and ‘living’, explaining some of the difficulties that arise in drawing firm boundaries between them
Write a short definition of the term ‘nouvelle AI’ and contrast this with Symbolic Al.