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    Artificial Intelligence is a term that fascinates people all over the world. Many organisations
                      have devised their own forms of artificial intelligence. Before we discuss artificial intelligence,
                      let us first try to understand what intelligence is.

                      Intelligence can be defined as the mental capacity
                      to acquire and apply knowledge. It includes the               African grey parrots and AI share

                      ability to learn from past experiences, adapt to              a knack for problem-solving. Both
                      new  situations,  reason,  plan,  solve  problems,            demonstrate impressive abilities
                      make decisions, retain information, recognise                   in understanding and utilising
                      patterns and use language to communicate.                                 language.

                      Humans possess all these abilities that make a
                      human naturally intelligent.

                                ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

                      Artificial Intelligence or AI refers to software technologies that give machines or robots the

                      intelligence to perform tasks generally performed by intelligent beings. It is the ability of a
                      robot or a machine to do tasks that usually require human intelligence. Speech recognition,
                      decision-making, language translation and
                      visual perception are some examples of
                      human intelligence that artificial intelligence         Name of first AI machine?

                      may possess.

                                HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVOLVED?

                      Now, let us look at the times when Artificial Intelligence was introduced in the past.

                      IN 1950s

                      John McCarthy was the first person to coin the term Artificial Intelligence in the DartMouth
                      Conference  held in  1956.  John McCarthy  is often  known as  the  Father of Artificial

                      Intelligence.

                      IN 1970s
                      The 1970s saw an expansion of the computer era with the development of much quicker and

                      affordable machines, with higher storage capacity. Their characteristics include abstract
                      thinking, self-recognition and they could accomplish natural language processing.

                      The development of the intelligent robot WABOT (Waseda robot) possessing human-like
                      characteristics began in Japan at Waseda University.

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