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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         First successful AI program
                 may possess.




                          EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

                 Now, let us look at the times when Artificial Intelligence was 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 they 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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