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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 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
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.
EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Now, let us look at the times when Artificial Intelligence introduced in the past.
IN THE 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 THE 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 could accomplish natural language processing.
The development of the intelligent robot WABOT (Waseda robot) possessing human-like
characteristics began in Japan at Waseda University.
PURE John McCarthy developed the LISP programming language in 1950s which was an
FACT important breakthrough in machine learning.
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