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INTRODUCTION TO AI
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                  Your Aim


                  to learn about:
                      l  What is Intelligence                                l  Types of Intelligence
                       l  Difference between Human and Machine Intelligence
                        l  What is AI?                                          l  Uses of AI




            In previous class, you have learnt that artificial intelligence refers to the software technologies that
            make a robot or computer act and think like humans. It is the simulation of human intelligence

            processes through machines, especially computer systems. Artificial intelligence imparts cognitive
            ability to machines, meaning it can make machines perform tasks in ways that are intelligent.
                WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?


            Intelligence refers to the ability to think, to learn from previous experience, to solve complex
            problems and to adapt new things and environment.

                TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE

            Humans possess cognitive abilities to learn, form
            concepts,  understand,  apply  logic  and  reason,
            including  the  capability  of  recognising  patterns,                 Spatial Intelligence  Naturalist  Intelligence
            comprehend      ideas,    solve   problems,     make
                                                                                                    Intelligence
            decisions, retain information and use language to            Intelligence               Musical
                                                                         Intra-personal
            communicate.
            According  to  the  Harvard  psychologist  Howard
                                                                        Linguistic     Types of        Logical-
            Gardner's  theories, humans do not just have               Intelligence  Intelligence   mathematical
                                                                                                     Intelligence
            an  intellectual  capacity  but  also  many  kinds  of
            intelligence. A person can be strong in a specific              Bodily-kinesthetic    Existential
            area,  such  as  logical  intelligence  or  musical                Intelligence     Intelligence

            intelligence but simultaneously can also possess a                           Intelligence  Interpersonal
            range of abilities.



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