A.I.

                                                What is A.I.?

"A.I. is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, primarily intelligent computer programs" said John Mccarthy. At first, computer were conceived as machines that can perform complex mathematical equations very quickly. No one ever thought that computers could simulate the brain. Then researchers, scientist and sci-fi authors started asking themselves, can computers simulate the brain? The biggest barrier that scientists faced when trying to create a computer that simulates the brain is that the human brain was so complex that scientists can barely comprehend it. How can you create algorithms for things like this?: 

1. A baby recognizing his/her mother's face at a very early age. 

2. An art critic sees an art piece he/she has never seen before, but can still recognize the era and artist. 

3. A song comes on the radio and  most music listeners can recognize the genre and the artist.

The answer is that you can't. Algorithms use mathematics, and humans who did these tasks can't mathematically conclude how they accomplished these tasks. Then scientists realized, to create a machine that acts just like a human, you can't simulate each task that a human did. All you have to do is find out how human did these tasks. The answer to that question is that they learned how to. That was one thing that scientist hadn't enable machines to do. Scientists had  never enabled machines to learn like humans do. That's when scientists created A.I(Artificial Intelligence) and M.L.(Machine Learning). A.I. and M.L. was created in the 1950's. At that time it was viewed futuristic possibility. Thanks to extensive research into computer algorithms and increases in computing capacity, A.I. and M.L. is reality. To put in a simple way, A.I. and M.L. are computer programs meant to act like a human, learning from mistakes they make. Even though A.I. that can act like a human(Strong A.I.) hasn't been created, we are coming very close. For more information on the 3 stages of evolution A.I and M.L. will go through, check the article "The Stages of A.I.", which is under the A.I. section on the navigation bar.