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EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL                                                                CHAPTER                            Artificial Intelligence is a term that fascinates people all over the world. Many organisations
            THE AI ZONE—HISTORY
                                                                                                                                      have devised their own forms of artificial intelligence. Before we discuss artificial intelligence,
            INTELLIGENCE                                                                           11                                 let us first try to understand what intelligence is.
            AND LIMITATIONS
                                                                                                                                      Intelligence can be defined as  the mental capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.

                                                                                                                                      It includes the ability to learn from past experiences, adapt to new situations, reason,
                                                                                                                                      plan, solve problems, make decisions, retain information, recognise patterns, and use
                                                                                                                                      language to communicate. 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
                           Aadya can you picture a machine             Topics Covered                      95%
                           that could arrange your cupboard                                                                           intelligence to perform tasks generally performed by intelligent beings. It is the ability of a
                                                                           Artificial Intelligence                                    robot or a machine to do tasks that usually require human intelligence. Speech recognition,
                           just as you want?                               Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

                                                                           From 2010 to present                                       decision-making, language translation, and
                                                                                                                                      visual perception are some examples of
                                                                                                                                      human intelligence that artificial intelligence          Name of first AI machine?

            That would be an amazing                                                                                                  may possess.
            sight, Techie!

                                                                                                                                               EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE


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


                           And now picture a machine that is serving everyone in your house, their                                    IN THE 1950s
                           favourite fruit.                                                                                           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’.


            You must be daydreaming. However, if this really happens and Mumma finds                                                  IN THE 1970s
            my cupboard tidy most of the times, she will never get annoyed with me.                                                   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 could accomplish natural language processing.

                                                                                                                                      The development of the intelligent robot WABOT (Waseda robot) possessing human-like
                           I am not daydreaming, Aadya. I am talking about Artificial Intelligence. All                               characteristics began in Japan at Waseda University.
                           these are products of Artificial Intelligence. Today, I am going to tell you
                           about AI’s history and limitations.
                                                                                                                                           PURE        John McCarthy developed the LISP programming language in 1950s which was an
                                                                                                                                           FACT        important breakthrough in machine learning.





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