Artificial Intelligence Seminar

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ABSTRACT:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the area of computer science focusing on creating machines that can engage on behaviors that humans consider intelligent. The ability to create intelligent machines has intrigued humans since ancient times and today with the advent of the computer and 50 years of research into AI programming techniques, the dream of smart machines is becoming a reality. Researchers are creating systems which can mimic human thought, understand speech, beat the best human chess player, and countless other feats never before possible. Actually, artificial intelligence can be defined in two ways
1. An attempt to make computers more intelligent
2. An attempt to understand how humans think
Artificial intelligence would be impossible without the work that led to the modern programmable digital computer. Calculating machines were built in antiquity and improved throughout history by many mathematicians, including, once again, philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. The first modern computers were built based on the theoretical insight of mathematicians like Alan Turing and John Von Neumann. Birth of artificial intelligence took place in 1956 at a conference, on the Dartmouth campus. This was born as an answer to the recognition that a machine that could manipulate numbers could also manipulate symbols. There are four different problems we face while dealing with systems and software. They are:
1) User interface problems
2) Turing test problems
3) Computationally complex problems
4) Rational agents
Artificial intelligence introduced four approaches to solve these problems. Each approach is used to solve a specific problem.
Artificial intelligence has applications in several fields. We can find this applicable in linguistics and games. Linguistics includes natural languages and CPAN modules. Games include techniques which are developed by artificial intelligence.
There are now in the world machines that can think that can learn and that can create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until--in a visible future--the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.
Definition:
Usually Artificial Intelligence is defined as:
1. An attempt to make computers "more intelligent"
2. An attempt to understand how humans think