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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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