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    Artificial  Intelligence  or AI  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

                     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 may possess.               Name of first AI machine?

                               HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVOLVED?

                     Now, let us look at the times when AI 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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