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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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