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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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