Can machines think? — Alan Turing, 1950 Less than a decade after breaking the Nazi encryption machine Enigma and helping the Allied Forces win World War II, mathematician Alan Turing changed history a second time with a simple question: “Can machines think?” Turing’s paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950), and it’s subsequent Turing Test, established the fundamental…
The term artificial intelligence was coined in 1956, but AI has become more popular today thanks to increased data volumes, advanced algorithms, and improvements in computing power and storage.Early AI research in the 1950s explored topics like problem solving and symbolic methods. In the 1960s, the US Department of Defense took interest in this type…
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. The term may also be applied to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human mind such as learning and problem-solving.The ideal characteristic of artificial intelligence is its ability to rationalize…
Video: Getting started with artificial intelligence and machine learningWhat is artificial intelligence (AI)?It depends who you ask.Back in the 1950s, the fathers of the field Minsky and McCarthy, described artificial intelligence as any task performed by a program or a machine that, if a human carried out the same activity, we would say the human…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition and machine vision.AI programming focuses on three cognitive skills: learning, reasoning and self-correction.Learning processes. This aspect of AI programming focuses on acquiring data and creating rules for…
Far from being the stuff of science-fiction, artificial intelligence, or AI, is becoming an increasingly common sight in today’s world.Combining the latest powerful software with top-of-the-range hardware, AI tools are being used to transform many areas of everyday life, from healthcare to traffic problems.But what is AI, and how is it being used today? Here…
In September 1955, John McCarthy, a young assistant professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, boldly proposed that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”McCarthy called this new field of study “artificial intelligence,” and suggested that a…