Artificial Intelligence

By Sandeep Kumar

Introduction:
 

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.
 

AI is considered to be the branch of Computer Science than that of General Science. There have been many research and development in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The area of research include speech and pattern recognition, natural language processing, learning from previous experiences (learning by making and correcting mistakes!), reasoning under the situations providing limited or incomplete information etc.
 

AI is practically applied in the field of computer games, expert systems, neural networks, robotics and many other fields of science and technology.
 

Different approaches are used to create intelligence. Including

• Neural Networks and Parallel Computation
• Top down Approaches

Examples:
 

Following are some examples of the applications in which AI techniques are used.

• Computer Games
• Missile Evasion
• Image Recognition
• Stock Market
• Auto-Pilot in Airplanes and Ships
• Biggest User is BMD(Ballistic Missile Defense) System
• Satellites
• Space Launch and re-entry
• Data Mining and Data Warehousing