What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
A short introduction to AI
According to the father of Artificial Intelligence, John McCarthy, it is “The science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs”.
Today Artificial Intelligence has made its breakthrough in almost all existing areas from science to business. If we look at the Google Trends Data for AI, for the past five years it has been growing continuously.
What is AI?
The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.
History of AI
A brief history of AI is given here.
Applications of AI
Currently Artificial Intelligence is used in almost all the domain areas of science and technology in the world. Few of them are given below.
- Computer Science: Computer Vision, Games, Speech Recognition, Virtual Reality, etc
- Biomedical Science: Image analysis, Disease diagnosis and prediction, Neuroscience.
- Robotics
- Finance, Marketing, and it goes on.
Recent news on AI
- AlphaGo is a narrow AI computer program developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind in London to play the board game Go. AlphaGO has won against human champions on the game Go.
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