Artificial Intelligence What is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? Strong and Weak A.I. The Turing Test Branches of A.I.

The idea of the robot replacing the need for human intelligence is a startling thought. Could these machines develop beyond our control? This section explains what Artificial Intelligence is and the scientific skills involved. What is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? The term Artificial Intelligence was first coined by John McCarthy in 1956 when he proposed that "intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." He now defines …

…intelligence by reproducing the types of physical connections that occur in animal brains. * Natural Language Processing - This involves programming computers to understand natural human languages. * Robotics - This field attempts to robots to act intelligently. For example to see and hear and react to other sensory stimuli. * Game Playing -This involves programming computers to play games such as chess. * Expert systems - This is where computers are programmed to make decisions in real-life situations.