History of Computers - Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
The term Artificial Intelligence was coined by John McCarthy. It is the idea of making computers sentient and intelligent beings like humans.
Overview
Artificial intelligence is what it sounds like, a computer that has fake intelligence, such that it mimics the humans ability to learn and adapt. People began working on artificial intelligence when it was thought that a computer could be built to think like a human. Currently, there are AIs with evolving algorithms that learn and change themselves with new data, but there are no truly sentient computers as seen in science fiction.
Significance
AI's have become a key part of our society by doing tasks that would otherwise be too hard to do by human hand. AI's can be seen in market monitoring and automated trading. [1] AI's showed their dominance when Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess[2], and when Watson defeated Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in the popular game show Jeopardy!.[3] Other tasks AI are commonly found doing are customer service jobs. The fact that AI's can answer a customers question with relative accuracy and ensure give humans a lot to look forward to. The only detriment is the economical effect AI's will have when jobs start being taken by computers.
