Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term you’ve probably heard before — it’s having a huge impact on society and is widely used across a range of industries and applications. So, what exactly is AI and what can it do? In this article, I offer a straightforward introduction.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a part of our daily lives — from language translation to medical diagnostics and driverless cars to facial recognition — it’s making more of an impact on industry and society every day.
But what exactly is AI?
Simply put, AI is a technology that replicates human intelligence through computers, systems or machines.
This is a fairly broad description, however, and different people have different ways of interpreting it. Let’s consider a few:
- The MIT Technology Review describes AI as “the quest to build machines that can reason, learn, and act intelligently”
- IBM considers that “any system capable of simulating human intelligence and thought processes is said to have Artificial Intelligence”
- Andrew Moore, Dean of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, suggests that AI is “the science and engineering of making computers behave in ways that, until recently, we thought required human intelligence”
- AI pioneers Minsky and McCarthy have said that for any task performed by a machine, if it would require intelligence for a human to do the same task, then that task is considered AI
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