ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?

Artificial Intelligence is a branch of Science which deals with ‘helping machines’ finding solutions to complex problems in a more human-like fashion. This generally involves borrowing characteristics from human intelligence, and applying them as algorithms in a computer friendly way.

HOW IT WORKS?

All artificial intelligence designs are at least superficially inspired by the human brain, as by definition artificial intelligence is about mimicking some aspect of intelligence.

AIs have to build concepts of the things they manipulate or work with, and store those concepts as chunks of data. Sometimes these chunks are dynamic and frequently updated, sometimes static.

Generally an AI is concerned with the relationships between data to achieve some goal.

When presented with a goal, an AI system generates sub goals, and assign these sub goals utility values based on their predicted contribution to the primary goal.

The AI proceeds to pursue sub goals until the primary goal is accomplished. Then it is free to move on to a new primary goal.

APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Game playing Speech recognition Understanding natural language Computer vision Expert systems (medical diagnosis) stock trading, robot control, law, scientific discovery

PICTURES

Military battleship (robot)

Scientist using robot

AI in jeopardy

Robots in movies

Speech recognition