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10 ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE AND
ROBOTICS
Your Aim
to learn about:
l What is Artificial Intelligence? l What can Artificial Intelligence do Today?
l Implementing Artificial Intelligence l Philosophers Views on Artificial Intelligence
l Robots and Robotics l Uses of Robotics
l Some Popular Robots Around the World l Androids
l Mechatronics
Artificial Intelligence is relatively new field in science & engineering. The gestation of Artificial
Intelligence started in 1950. Alan Turing in his article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” in
1950 introduced Turing Test, machine learning, genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning.
Alan Turing (1912 – 1954) is called the father of computer science & Artificial Intelligence.
John McCarthy first coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in 1956 at Dartmouth conference, where
a two-month workshop was conducted on automata theory, neutral nets and study of intelligence.
WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
The English Oxford Living Dictionary gives the definition of AI as “The theory and development
of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual
perception, speech recognition, decision making, and translation between languages”.
In other words, Artificial Intelligence is an area where computer science and engineering
emphasise on creation of intelligent systems that can
Neural
work and react like humans. Networks
Cognitive Planning
A lot of research has been carried out since then. Systems
Artificial Intelligence researchers took ideas, view points
Artificial
and techniques from various fields like philosophy, Knowledge Robotics
Intelligence
mathematics, economics, neuroscience, psychology,
computer engineering, cognitive science, linguistics, Perception Machine
Natural Learning
operation research, control theory probability and Language
Processing
logic, etc.
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