1. Introduction and Scope

[@mitocw]

+Ella Shar The 6.034 course has 6.01 and 18.02 for prerequisites. You must be able to program in Python, and understand search algorithms (depth-first, breadth-first, uniform-cost, A*) and basic probability and state estimation (covered in 6.01). You will also need to know what the chain rule is and partial derivatives and dot products (covered in 18.02).

[@PelczarTomasz]

Electronics

[@amarug]

FichDichInDemArsch instead of just making a statement sounding like a deliberately defiant teenager, why don't you spell out the advantages of such a choice? assuming all languages are capable to doing the desired tasks, then ultimately efficiency gain is desired - so can you code that much faster in either of them languages or will the resulting programs that much faster that it will compensate the prolonged development time?

[@amarug]

FichDichInDemArsch Thank you for an elaborate and clear answer - I guess I was hasty to discard your comment. Probably based on some prejudice, which arose from your use of profanity and a username that could possibly only have come from a male teenager (as it means "fuck you in the ass" in German, with two (possibly deliberate) spelling mistakes). However, apart from that, you made a very good statement to underline your previous one-liner. PS: I have only few frustrations, so I need very little venting. :-)

[@mitocw]

FichDichInDemArsch We have courses available on those subjects as well. See the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department for a full list of courses available at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ or through our Course Finder at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=computerscience&spec=theoryofcomputation

[@jeffreyjensen1748]

+FichDichInDemArsch I think you're missing the goals of the class. Python is easier to read, easier to learn, easier to refactor, and has much more community support online. If lisp isn't written in a decent fashion, it can be nearly impossible to understand. It's an ok language I guess. There are so many more libraries for python. Not having to write code is the best form of abstraction.

[@SouthernSeneca]

Taking this lecture in 2019, RIP Prof. Patrick Henry Winston you're an amazing teacher

[@aaronkonstantine2794]

👍🏻

[@rishabhvishal5425]

Was it Beneficial? Like was it outdated or still useful

[@SGIMartin]

@@rishabhvishal5425 The algorithms are never outdated - these courses will be good in 20 years from now

[@jayadeepmir7496]

@@rishabhvishal5425 Most of this is "classical AI" or as the course where I studied it called it, "knowledge-based AI" or "cognitive systems." The "outdated" parts are as relevant as "classical physics," in that newer research has built upon them rather than invalidating them entirely

[@vyrsh0]

@@rishabhvishal5425 there hasn't been anything major in AI for 3 decades now. last major thing was in '86 when Geoffrey popularized backpropagation(didn't invent, just popularized a technique from 1949). Geoffrey was working on forward forward, a new way to train neural nets, however he stopped working on it.

[@yogeshindolia3103]

38:50 He literally steps aside while saying "Let me step aside to make a remark" and goes on to say something off topic. Brilliant. I am going to try to do that as much as I can.

[@bilalmohammed0]

It is a sad moment watching him explaining as I learned that this benovlent professor has passed away 19 July 2019. 💔

[@leojoy9347]

RIP

[@Kybalion88]

O. O thats so sad, he is so awesome, I was going to thank him..

[@corkeybucheck8666]

I hope he gets better soon.

[@Kybalion88]

@@corkeybucheck8666 he is dead 😭😭

[@Bitcoinminds]

@@Kybalion88 may Allah bless him

[@chrisaustin4115]

Thank you MIT for putting this online...thank you so much

[@marcusatiliusregulus]

Right how amazing that this is here and open to anyone to watch

[@kryzer1215]

Are there any prerequisites to take this course?

[@faysalarab]

@@kryzer1215 probably yes. Computer science 1 and 2. Software systems, etc

[@godmakoto1041]

I feel smart when I laugh with them

[@nuamaaniqbal6373]

God Makoto ahh haha

[@shivendhania7724]

😂😂😂

[@Detroitmamma]

Me2 😆

[@datopdlink]

Lmao wow 😭😭

[@wishcraft4u2]

You will be if you do it more often

[@vivekmishra007]

RIP prof patrick, thank you for delivering such an awesome lectures, will really miss your teaching.

[@mid7699]

Did you go to mit?

[@KulvinderSingh-pm7cr]

Only way to remember you is this course.. I loved your every joke and the way you made this class so much interesting Thanks for this MIT and Thanks a lot Professor, May you find peace.

[@Hermaeus7]

Amen

[@allandogreat]

did you grad from MIT?

[@KulvinderSingh-pm7cr]

@@allandogreat No, but I took this video course to understand about AI and ML. But the professor was head of MIT SAIL and this course is taught by him every semester.

[@himal2000]

May we meet again

[@KulvinderSingh-pm7cr]

@@himal2000 yes yes

[@kylemckenzie6772]

This gentleman is one of the most engaging lecturers I've ever seen. Lecture 1 and I'm wholly engaged!!

[@naveenkamath2882]

Where r u working now bro after 6yrs

[@user-tq9do5ss7j]

he is dead :

[@mimosveta]

congratulations on your engagement, both times.

[@penguinmonk7661]

This was absolutely gorgeous, I was immature at the time I took my Machine learning course at my university and barely scraped by with a 6 by answering all the mathmatical questions correctly (of which I guessed 3) So it is really nice to have the chance to take a course like this again and at Ivy league level for free, I just wanted to say bless you.

[@randomman5188]

How much has your life changed since that?

[@marianlenehan9618]

I’m listening again to these wonderful lectures in 2023. When I first listened to them 8 years ago, as a nurse studying Health Informatics, I knew that this clever man would not live a long life. His body mass index and his laboured breathing told me that. People say body image doesn’t matter and, jn the entertainment industry, we frequently celebrate obesity. But believe me please, it does matter when your skeletal frame and body organs age. 76 was way too soon for Professor Winston to leave us 🙏💕

[@vyrsh0]

it deeply saddens me when an old person dies especially those with great knowledge and unique experiences.

[@LouisDuran]

We do NOT "frequently celebrate obesity". The opposite is true. Nevertheless, it is sad that he is gone at only 76 years of age.

[@world_ruler894]

bro my syllabus is this, should i go through this lecture series: Introduction: Definitions and Approaches, History of AI, Philosophical Foundations of AI, Turing’s Test, Searle’s Chinese Room, Symbolic and Connectionist AI, Concept of Intelligent Agents. AI Problem Solving: Problem solving as state space search, production system, control strategies and problem characteristics; Search techniques: Breadth First and Depth-first, Hill-climbing, Heuristics, Best-First Search, A* algorithm, Problem reduction and AO* algorithm, Constraints satisfaction, Means Ends Analysis, Game Playing. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Predicate and prepositional logic, Resolution, Unification, Deduction and theorem proving, Question answering; Forward versus backward reasoning, Matching, Indexing, Semantic Net, Frames, Conceptual Dependencies and Scripts. Applications: Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Expert System. Suggested Readings: 1. S. Russel, P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Pearson. 2. E. Rich, K. Knight, Artificial Intelligence, Tata McGraw Hill. 3. N. J. Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann.

[@jamesdebord7519]

Your comments while being correct have nothing to do with what people are learning here. People know we are a product of our choices. You are just using this genius of a man’s memory to make yourself sound intelligent. That’s sad!!

[@senamit202]

What a huge difference a good teacher makes! I wish I had teachers like this when I was in school.

[@name-mb8co]

this is not school bro

[@CedrikTalos]

That.. Doesn't mean he didn't go to school.

[@EOh-ew2qf]

@@name-mb8co wait, mit is not a school?

[@MichielvanderBlonk]

@@EOh-ew2qf He means it's a university. Ivy league.

[@neel_epoch7580]

Patrick Winston was the professor that got me hooked with MIT, it's sad to comprehend that such a talent is no way. At the same time, it is somewhat comforting that his videos will be avaiable forever, reflecting his thoughts, and the way of his teaching...

[@NeuralxAi]

I am From a village in Kashmir. We Don't Have Teachers That Can Explain Things on this Level And i Totally depend on These Great Teachers in MIT. Lot's Of Love Sir, I wish I could be the Part Of that University. I Can Only Say Thank You So much for Quality Education .

[@entengummitiger1576]

Keep going!

[@NeuralxAi]

@@entengummitiger1576 yes Just need Someone to Do together. It's a little difficult to to do all alone 💔

[@entengummitiger1576]

Must be hard. Can you move to a bigger city at least?

[@NeuralxAi]

@@entengummitiger1576 No its Not possible for me. can't mention the issues here...😂

[@entengummitiger1576]

@@NeuralxAi Maybe this could be helpful discord.gg/CbVJYtz

[@abhijeet242909090]

This man is at level 9999 in teaching. One of the best teacher I ever listen.

[@guillempitarch427]

Thanks to the MIT for making this material available for anyone. I never had the opportunity to meet Patrick Winston in person, but my companions and I devoured all his lectures and, in a way, he was another teacher for us. Descanse en paz maestro.

[@anonymous.youtuber]

This lecture is so full of wisdom! What a great way to start a course. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@johanngambolputty5351]

I have watched some of this series once or twice already and will likely do so a third time at some point for completeness, such a great series.

[@troglodyto]

RIP Professor Winston - one of the most creative lecturers I've ever seen

[@abhignyanbora2814]

Dr. Patrick Winston was terrific. I wish if he was my professor.

[@DeepGamingAI]

I remember seeing these videos years ago when I was thinking of undertaking AI courses at my university. He helped me make the decision to pursue it eventually. RIP :(

[@sarahtseng3881]

Do you regret the decision?

[@maar2001]

@@sarahtseng3881 i think he does lol

[@anupvtirpude1]

One of the best lecture I have attended, pretty happy to came across this. Thank you MIT and Mr.Winston to put it on internet, made it available for public. Attending regular courses are out of bound for me, but these kinds of sources helped me a lot. Please keep doing the good work. Thanks you so much !!

[@theprimordialdude1138]

Thanks for giving this opportunity to learn AI from world's biggest university which is the dream of every student in the world. Many many thanks for it.

[@LestariNs]

It's interesting. I love the demostration part. The professor has good sense of humor

[@neurokid1]

I like your name!

[@arrowb3408]

This is ONE OF best teacher among whole uni instructors in KZbin no matter in speech, explanation and logic. Still the best of the best. And very impressed that no computer allowed in his lecture but beholding your ears and eyes, so as the Prof. I would love to attend this Prof lecture if I got chance back to campus on the globe.:) I would rather stay with an inspiring and cool articulate teacher with well preparation and sense of humour instead of keeping on stuttering on lecture. A+ for this Prof. Again now i understand why MIT is the best school in the world just from this little window of this AI Prof. .............................................. STF...............................................................................

[@nasserhussain5698]

RIP Professor Patrick Winston, your lectures are outstanding!!

[@vtrandal]

Professor Winton’s history of AI that starts at about 20:20 focuses rule-based expert systems. He omits the history of neural networks. I believe there is some wisdom in doing that but I don’t quite understand it. He makes a powerful case for what really constitutes intelligence toward the end of this lecture.

[@welcomehelloj9164]

41:38 i love how a class attendance was presented in such a way, very innovative hehe

[@bitcoinwarrior1]

The thinking about the scenario of the man running with a bucket full of water is a great analogy for how we can think of something without explicit information

[@kevhan5348]

Thanks Prof. Winston. RIP.

[@codefordev911]

Thank you MIT putting such a quality lectures online.

[@stevebethhayward858]

This is so awesome! I wonder how many students calculated the odds of: if they could be the student on the dot graph that did not have to attend any classes and still pass the class! I love how Prof. Winston leaves the opportunity for each student make that decision for themselves. (Side note when the best imagination of the AI was to fly..... -from limited possibilities no less, I got a little misty. That was beautiful) 💕 #epic-educator #historic #iconic #storyteller

[@siddharthraychaudhuri7250]

Wherever you are Professor Winston, thank you.

[@greywolf271]

This lecture is Absolutely Incredible, owes so much to Patrick's teaching skills.

[@veronikavarakova3927]

14:38 DID NONE OF Y'ALL WATCH THE MASTERPIECE THAT IS PHINEAS AND FERB

[@kalpitveerwalyt]

I love this comment

[@ojussinghal2501]

YES I DID😭

[@shivanngpuri]

@@kalpitveerwalyt hahaha Kalpit good to see you here!!!

[@lokanathmohanty]

Today I have started to learn ai. The session was little difficult to understand but few examples help a lot to understand. I want to build a chat bot which can think and learn it self and answer all question what people used to ask me at my workplace. This is my target to learn AI.

[@LouisDuran]

Think about giving these lectures yourself... It is not easy to do this. Believe me, I have been a teacher of mathematics at the Junior High School level. Math is not an easy subject to start with. It's not easy to make interesting to a large group of people. It is not easy to connect mathematics to people's daily lives. However, Prof. Winston makes this look effortlessly easy. He engages his students, he calls them by their names and he makes them laugh and keeps then engaged the whole time. This carries on while they do their homework and take their exams. He has truly inspired the next generation of learner, teacher and masters. RIP good fellow. RIP.

[@cleverclover7]

Thank you to MIT and Dr. Winston for sharing this invaluable experience here!

[@LealieOwen]

Love how much you love your life and new chapter with your new certification!!

[@mujahidulislam6839]

Thankyou MIT and thankyou Patrick Winston for being such a great Instructor

[@userhandle-l]

I would love to know how a modern AI class is being taught nowadays at MIT. This is a wonderful lecture series, but there has been so much progress in AI in the past 13 years, the class is bound to have been updated.

[@SpeaksYourWord]

check out cs50AI

[@weekendresearcher]

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. R.I.P Professor

[@user-lh2hx5xf4e]

I know nobody cares but I was the person to give this video its 10,000th like.

[@seeibe]

Gosh dang, watched half an hour of this and already feel like I've learned more than in a 90 minute lecture at my uni. MIT, why must you be on a different continent? :(

[@benaloney]

Its great to finally understand what an aglet is!

[@MinhLe-ho6fj]

Love you, Winston, R.I.P

[@mohamedakrambennacer4005]

Just got out of last tutorial of the day at 4pm, texhausted and stumbled upon this lecture, It was the best entertainement possible, long live big ideas.

[@nakamoto830]

Hi bro I want to start this AI cource But this playlist is too old almost 10 years So please give me feedback I also heard about the nptel IIT Delhi AI cource playlist started 3years back Please recommend me one iam confused

[@simmonslucas]

I really like how Prof. Winston was able to weave AI into many different domains.

[@davidechiappetta]

I have a 1957 book by Chomsky "Syntactic Structures" that I reread from time to time (I have years of experience with parsers and compilers) and what he said at 35:22 reminds me of grammars generate context-sensitive languages (type 1) where with "α A β → α γ β" A modifies γ without touching α and β. However, if scientists focused more on language structures than on complex matrix operations, the algorithms of the future would do much more "intelligent" things than AI does today.

[@dehghanym]

Wow! Absoulutely amazing. What a talenetd thinker and professor.

[@10livesimple19]

wow. A professor that actually knows the names of his students :)

[@nomadedge]

I love Patrick Winston! Thank you so much for this lecture. I will take it to my English lessons!

[@fardousahmed3883]

Miss you badly, but you & your jokes will remain ever fresh in my memory. Thanks & Good Bye.

[@dubeya01]

He is an amazing teacher

[@aaronkonstantine2794]

👍🏻

[@kubilay9873]

it seems a good series. i am reading "artificial intelligence a modern approach" and hope this series would help me to grasp subjects in the book.

[@harwinderkarwal]

Excellent lecture Professor

[@bryanreisser1421]

His handwriting so satisfying

[@shravankashyap9437]

Rip professor 😔, I am grateful for the amazing lecture as I am watching it today in 2024🙏🙏

[@bishnubarman6457]

Thank you for shareing such a grat class, its seem to me that I amreally present in the class. It is boon to me being a physically handicap boy. Thank you so much. :)

[@user-tq9do5ss7j]

The grading system is amazing!

[@katateo328]

yeah, I finally got a model of my own thinking which is useful in several aspects. Great lectures.

[@QSing999]

OMG Patrick Winston is a brilliant instructor.

[@studywithjosh5109]

I’m excited to take this class. This is my first day.

[@abhinashmatthew8553]

The equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati.

[@MTMRPG]

He specified African Countries.

[@sanieaakhtar146]

Is this lecture still relevant in terms how much time has passed by since it was first delivered and how the technology has changed?

[@hanie1601]

Yes, this is foundation level machine learning.

[@userhandle-l]

Yes! I have learned more modern things as a student, but this class helped me a lot to learn about Early AI systems and algorithms rigorously. They are still relevant today.

[@world_ruler894]

@@userhandle-l bro my syllabus is this, should i go through this lecture series: Introduction: Definitions and Approaches, History of AI, Philosophical Foundations of AI, Turing’s Test, Searle’s Chinese Room, Symbolic and Connectionist AI, Concept of Intelligent Agents. AI Problem Solving: Problem solving as state space search, production system, control strategies and problem characteristics; Search techniques: Breadth First and Depth-first, Hill-climbing, Heuristics, Best-First Search, A* algorithm, Problem reduction and AO* algorithm, Constraints satisfaction, Means Ends Analysis, Game Playing. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Predicate and prepositional logic, Resolution, Unification, Deduction and theorem proving, Question answering; Forward versus backward reasoning, Matching, Indexing, Semantic Net, Frames, Conceptual Dependencies and Scripts. Applications: Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Expert System. Suggested Readings: 1. S. Russel, P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Pearson. 2. E. Rich, K. Knight, Artificial Intelligence, Tata McGraw Hill. 3. N. J. Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Morgan Kaufmann.

[@peterdellas9236]

The Macbeth joke went down really well I see.

[@mhabert]

engineerings... they dont get it

[@nellatl]

Nobody from Africa in the class? Professor says so much the better

[@user-em9mw9ch3y]

Man, this Professor ROCKS! so humorous

[@fanjerry8100]

Wow, lots of powerful ideas in this one.

[@aliasad8342]

I'm a software developer, I see a lot of AI engineers are getting more pay (and why wouldn't they). It's been months since I decided to change my career into AI. But I have never been able to grab the AI under my belt. This is such a good course, I never found some teaching AI so well. I'm hoping this would be a life changing course for me, excited to watch all the videos. Thanks, MIT for sharing it (Y)

[@AdventureThroughLife]

The irony of watching this on a laptop n.n

[@CultofThings]

”Frequently you can substitute computing for intelligence” That’s an interesting distinction.

[@saltcheese]

MIT's reputation is rightfully earned and secure in its place as long as people like Mr WInston (and numerous others from MIT OCW) keep teaching there. Very educational. These lecturers return my faith in humanity. :)

[@basclips01]

I got the how many countries in africa does the equator cross question right without even knowing... but quickly calculating what was the most probable answer and staked my life on it as the good professor asked. Wasn't positive, so threw in a little chance in there too. Got it right!

[@Whystling_Byrd]

You better hope the borders don't change, bõy.

[@soulextracter]

Can't help but thinking: What if he started the lecture with "have I ever told you about the definition of insanity" x'D

[@saltcheese]

+The horrible story of a man that was forced to connect his youtube account to google+ nice name!

[@thelolladorfking2416]

vas would really be a good Professor. :D

[@technicaldifficultysupport]

That africa comment was tense.

[@AdityaRaj-yo9tj]

What a great lecture?

[@isbestlizard]

i bet there are people at mit who literally DID draw a state diagram when they were 7 (probably came up with it entirely de novo) to solve that problem and they're doing very great things now :D

[@synitti]

simple vs trivial. It's complexity vs. value. The most powerful things in the world is the least complex like E = MC2. Trivial is insignificant to care about, or put time toward

[@moldo800]

I think that the material shown here will be of actuality in 30 years too. I think that the IMAGINE aspect is crucial. RIP Prof PHW

[@abhijeet242909090]

Thankx MIT for this gift .

[@cakshacourses1048]

We found this video very usefull so we have added this to our course at caksha....

[@pllayerdois]

00:00 everywhere in the world there are late students

[@vaguebrownfox]

@Crebs Park For real?

[@GamingBlake2002]

@Crebs Park Cody Garbrandt attended Newberry College and Notre Dame College. This is an MIT lecture.

[@kermitthealmighty8355]

@@GamingBlake2002 r/woooosh

[@MrCmon113]

With hundreds of people in a lecture there is certainly someone, who can just barely make it.

[@harshitmadan6449]

@@vaguebrownfox Don't believe a random comment on the internet

[@dimitriosmenounos1009]

This lecture was a pleasure to watch.

[@aamiraa93]

RIP Prof. Patrick Winston

[@madhurchauhan1288]

Really nice lecture, very helpful

[@DD3874]

Great Teacher!

[@KulvinderSingh-pm7cr]

RIP Professor

[@mahuraanhoggaan9751]

Probably there was no one in Africa. but student from Africa is watching this content as self study. Disappointed there is no student from Africa sitting in this big class. One day, me or someone else will attend.

[@danielsarmiento326]

He's a very good teacher, but his breathing is worrying.

[@selton91]

Daniel Sarmiento indeed hahahha

[@klystron2010]

Would you be less worried if he stopped breathing?

[@Originalimoc]

Loooool

[@abdullahrashid5351]

Thats because of all those McChikens he eats

[@duancleypaul1647]

I thought I was the only one worried about this. :s

[@IvanDubois2]

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths."

[@thomasjones5636]

I watched with curiosity from start to finish but didnt feel like I had much to take away by the end. I am still curious about AI.

[@collinching890]

did he memorize everybody's names before class??

[@12PnT12]

Probably only the regulars or best graders from some past course :)

[@ThePavelkomin]

Yes! He (at least claims to) actually remember his student's names each semester! The Rumpelstiltskin Principle! (Source: alum.mit.edu/slice/rumpelstiltskin-principle )

[@entengummitiger1576]

I think he has some compulsion to tinker with any data he gets, and the student list is data

[@tratbagd4500]

@@entengummitiger1576 Nope. He just thinks that he should put the effort to learn the names of all his students. It's one of his policies and is available on his website. May he rest in piece.

[@shapedsilver3689]

I think the Dean of CS at my school does that too. He taught a class of 60 people and by the second week he definitely knew my name, even though I had never spoken to him before and was a pretty average student

[@marawanahmed7829]

RIP !

[@Youtug]

There we go!

[@WenYanVlogs]

This course is amazing. Thanks!!!

[@StarzzLAB]

Rest In Peace prof. Winston

[@navedahmad1672]

Thank-you MIT

[@mathisawesome618]

Thank you very much for putting these online

[@literallyhitler3059]

Wow, this is a good lecturer. Wish I could go to MIT :(((

[@abggk2]

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