What is artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a way to make machines think and behave intelligently. These machines are controlled by software inside them. So, AI has a lot to do intelligent software programs that control these machines. It is a science of finding theories and methodologies that can help machines understand the world and accordingly react to situations in the same way that humans do.

AI is closely related to the study of human brain. Researchers believe that AI can be accomplished by understanding how the human brain works. By mimicking the way the human brain learns, thinks and takes action, we can deal a machine that can do the same. This can be used as a plateform to develop intelligent systems that are capable of learning.

How does Artificial Intelligence work?

Turing’s paper “computing machinery and intelligence” (1950), and its subsequent Turing test, established the fundamental goal and vision of artificial intelligence.

The following approaches given below define how AI works:-

1. Thinking humanly.

2. Thinking rationally.

3. Acting humanly.

4. Acting rationally.

While addressing a crowd at the Japan AI experience in 2017, DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin began his speech by offering the following definition of how AI is used today:

“AI is a computer system able to perform tasks that ordinarily require human intelligence. Many of these artificial intelligence systems are powered by deep learning and some of them are powered by very boring things like rules”.

Applications of AI:-

AI manifests itself in various different forms across multiple fields, so its important to understand how it is useful in various domains. AI has been used across many industries and it continues to expand rapidly. Some of the most popular areas include:-

● Computer vision :- These are the systems that deal with visual data such as images and videos. These systems understand the content and extract insights based on the use case. For example, Google uses reverse image search to search for visually similar images across the web.

● Games :- AI is used extensively in the gaming industry it is used to design intelligent agents that can compete with humans. For example, AlphaGo is a computer program that can play the stragety game Go. It is also used in designing many other types of games where we expect the computer to behave intelligently.

● Natural language processing :- The fields deals with understanding text. We can interact with a machine by typing natural language sentences. Search engines use this extensively to deliver the right search results.

● Speech recognition:-This system are capable of hearing of understanding spoken words. For example, there are intelligent personal assistant on our smart phones that can understand what we are saying and give relevant information or perform an action based on that.