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"AI can be defined as the attempt to get real machines to behave like the ones in the movies."
Humankind has given itself the scientific name homo sapiens--man the wise--because our mental capacities are so important to our everyday lives and our sense of self.
The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, attempts to understand intelligent entities. Thus, one reason to study it is to learn more about ourselves .AI strives to build intelligent entities as well as understand them.
Another reason to study AI is that these constructed intelligent entities are interesting and useful in their own right. AI has produced many significant and impressive products even at this early stage in its development. Although no one can predict the future in detail, it is clear that computers with human-level intelligence (or better) would have a huge impact on our everyday lives and on the future course of civilization.
AI addresses one of the ultimate puzzles!
How is it possible for a slow, tiny brain, whether biological or electronic, to perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate a world far larger and more complicated than itself? How do we go about making something with those properties?
The researcher in AI has solid evidence that the quest is possible. All the researcher has to do, is look in the mirror to see an example of an intelligent system, ie ,themselves.
AI currently encompasses a huge variety of subfields, from general-purpose areas such as perception and logical reasoning, to specific tasks such as playing chess, proving mathematical theorems, writing poetry, and diagnosing diseases. Often, scientists in other fields move gradually into artificial intelligence, where they find the tools and vocabulary to systematize and automate the intellectual tasks on which they have been working all their lives.
AI is one of the newest disciplines. It was formally initiated in 1956, when the name was coined.
Due to invention of usable computers in the...
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