To understand the concept of Artificial Intelligence, we need to explore what intelligence is and what relation does it have with human intelligence. Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in any kind of activity. Various individuals, animals and machines have varied degrees of intelligence and intelligence is not confined to human beings alone. With the advancement of technology, human intelligence can be spanned to machines also by feeding them with sophisticated programs. The belief of human intelligence is supreme and cannot be mimicked by any of the artificial systems developed. Nevertheless, the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) replaces the human oblongata. According to the Webster's Standard Dictionary, AI is referred to as the machine intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (artificial) system. Thus, artificial intelligence is the science of making intelligent machines by using intelligent computer programs.
To understand the concept of AI, we need to explore what intelligence is and what relation it has to human intelligence. Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in any kind of activity. Various individuals, animals and machines have varied degrees of intelligence and intelligence is not confined to human beings alone. With the advancement of technology, human intelligence can be spanned to machines also by feeding them with sophisticated programs. But since intelligence is abstract in nature and is not well-defined, it is still not clear as to what kind of computational procedures are called intelligent. Thus, it becomes very difficult to decide which machine is intelligent and which is not. Or in the first place, are machines intelligent or not?
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