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Introducing AI

                  “One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want,
                  understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.”
                                                                                   —Larry Page, Google Co-founder

                  In simple terms, we can define AI as a machine that can simulate human thought process and
                  can take actions based on those thoughts and even draw conclusions. It should also be able to
                  correct itself, if it makes a mistake. This also means that AI-based computer would be able to
                  make a decision in a given situation like human beings and in some cases even better.

                          Brief History of AI

                  The journey to understand if machines could truly think began much before John McCarthy’s
                  first academic conference. In Vannevar Bush’s seminal work "As We May Think", he proposed
                  a system which amplifies people’s own knowledge and understanding. Five years later, Alan
                  Turing wrote a paper on the notion of machines being able to simulate human beings and the
                  ability to do intelligent things, such as play Chess.

                  In 1950s, AI was limited to problem solving and later in 1960’s US Defence did most of the work.
                  The first intelligent personal assistant was introduced by One Voice as IVAN in the year 1999.
                  The following table represents the evolution of AI over the years:


                    S.No.     Year                                      Milestone

                                       Alan Turing submitted a paper about the possibility of creating a machine
                      1.      1950
                                       that would think.
                                       John McCarthy finally gave the name "Artificial Intelligence". A research
                      2.      1956
                                       was founded in Dartmouth college.
                      3.      1966     First Chatbot ELIZA was created.

                      4.      1967     WABOT project was undertaken in Japan.

                                       The  world's  first  full-scale  intelligent  humanoid  robot  WABOT-1  was
                      5.      1972
                                       completed.

                      6.      1980     Form of AI program “Expert System” was adapted.
                                       Deep Thought and HiTech defeated chess masters. It led to the development
                      7.      1989
                                       of Deep Blue.
                      8.      1997     Deep Blue defeated then reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

                      9.      2002     Roomba, the robotic vacuum was developed.

                     10.      2011     IBM Watson, a question-answer computer system won a quiz show.

                     11.      2012     Google Now, a search application for Android and iOS was launched.





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