Artificial intelligence
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Making computers smarter. Not like more information, but more in making decisions. More human in its train of thought.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the study of mental faculties through the use of a computational model (by naziru sani ). The idea of AI started in 1956 when the name was coined as a topic of the Dartmouth Conference by John McCarthy.
The idea behind AI is not to make a computer that is smart. It is just to build a machine that can act like it were smart. Very often, AI is closely connected to mathematical logic. It is about proving things, and simplifying mathematical formulae.
First there was the Turing machine. Given a set of input data, it produces some output, after doing some calculations. That machine is the basis of modern computers.
If someone wanted to appear very smart, all they needed to do was to imitate someone else who they know is smart. Then you would not be able to say if they were smart or if they were not. But in fact, all they do is mimic what they see. Such a machine is called Interaction machine and it is a lot more complex than a Turing machine.
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