Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the branch of science that deals with computer ability to mimic or duplicate the function of the human brain. The term was coined by John McCarthy in1956 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Artificial Intelligence  (AI) deals with knowledge representation and its manipulation. Knowledge is central to all engineering and hence AI is central to all engineering.
Four goals of AI:

  • systems that THINK like humans
  • systems that ACT like humans
  • systems that THINK rationally
  • systems that ACT rationally

Artificial intelligence includes:

  • games playing: programming computers to play games such as chess and checkers
  • expert system: programming computers to make decisions in real life situations (for example, some expert systems help doctors diagnose diseases based on symptoms)
  • natural language: programming computers to understand natural human languages
  • neural networks: systems that simulate intelligence by attempting to reproduce the types of physical connections that occur in animal brains
  • robotics: programming computers to see and hear and react to other sensory stimuli.

Why study AI?

  • AI represents the core of Computer science
  • AI embodies diverse forms of computation
  • AI has a strong interdisciplinary nature
  • AI deals with knowledge representation and its manipulation. knowledge is central to all Engineering and hence AI is central to all Engineering.
  • An important research is AI research hopes to uncover a profound crisis faced in our times. The crises created by the interactions of technology, science and philosophy
  • Technologically, AI represents the apex of human achievement
  • A technology not so much to produce, but to create
  • We are unable to produce such a technology, not  because of Technological limits, but scientific inadequacy
  • Plato, Descartes, and others that followed to date assumed Mind to be separate entity from the body.

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