What is Artificial Intelligence? What is AI Future

 

What is Artificial Intelligence?

According to the father of Artificial Intelligence John McCarthy, it is “The science and
engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs”.

Artificial Intelligence is a way of making a computer, a computer-controlled robot, or a
software think intelligently, in the similar manner the intelligent humans think.

AI is accomplished by studying how human brain thinks, and how humans learn, decide, and
work while trying to solve a problem, and then using the outcomes of this study as a basis of
developing intelligent software and systems.

Philosophy of AI

While exploiting the power of the computer systems, the curiosity of human, lead him to

wonder, “Can a machine think and behave like humans do?”

Thus, the development of AI started with the intention of creating similar intelligence in

machines that we find and regard high in humans.

Goals of AI

• To Create Expert Systems: The systems which exhibit intelligent behavior, learn, demonstrate, explain, and advice its users.
• To Implement Human Intelligence in Machines: Creating systems that understand, think, learn, and behave like humans.

What Contributes to AI?

Artificial intelligence is a science and technology based on disciplines such as Computer

Science, Biology, Psychology, Linguistics, Mathematics, and Engineering. A major thrust of AI

is in the development of computer functions associated with human intelligence, such as

reasoning, learning, and problem solving.

Out of the following areas, one or multiple areas can contribute to build an intelligent system.

Programming Without and With AI

The programming without and with AI is different in following ways:

What is AI Technique?

In the real world, the knowledge has some unwelcomed properties:

• Its volume is huge, next to unimaginable.
• It is not well-organized or well-formatted.
• It keeps changing constantly.

AI Technique is a manner to organize and use the knowledge efficiently in such a way that:

• It should be perceivable by the people who provide it.
• It should be easily modifiable to correct errors.
• It should be useful in many situations though it is incomplete or inaccurate.

AI techniques elevate the speed of execution of the complex program it is equipped with.

Applications of AI

AI has been dominant in various fields such as:

Gaming

AI plays crucial role in strategic games such as chess, poker, tic-tac-toe, etc., where

machine can think of large number of possible positions based on heuristic knowledge.

Natural Language Processing
It is possible to interact with the computer that understands natural language spoken
by humans.

Expert Systems

There are some applications which integrate machine, software, and special

information to impart reasoning and advising. They provide explanation and advice to

the users.

Vision Systems

These systems understand, interpret, and comprehend visual input on the computer.

For example,

• A spying aeroplane takes photographs which are used to figure out spatial information or map of the areas.
• Doctors use clinical expert system to diagnose the patient.
• Police use computer software that can recognize the face of criminal with the stored portrait made by forensic artist.

Speech Recognition

Some intelligent systems are capable of hearing and comprehending the language in

terms of sentences and their meanings while a human talks to it. It can handle different

accents, slang words, noise in the background, change in human’s noise due to cold,

etc.

Handwriting Recognition

The handwriting recognition software reads the text written on paper by a pen or on

screen by a stylus. It can recognize the shapes of the letters and convert it into editable

text.

Intelligent Robots

Robots are able to perform the tasks given by a human. They have sensors to detect

physical data from the real world such as light, heat, temperature, movement, sound,

bump, and pressure. They have efficient processors, multiple sensors and huge

memory, to exhibit intelligence. In addition, they are capable of learning from their

mistakes and they can adapt to the new environment.

History of AI

Here is the history of AI during 20th century: