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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.
                                                                                        Artificial Intelligence


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