Artificial Intelligence |
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INTRODUCTION & TERMINOLOGIES |
Definition of AI
Definition 1
AI is the branch of computer science concerned with the study and creation of computer systems that exhibit some form of intelligence; systems that learn new concepts and tasks, systems that can reason and draw useful conclusions about the world around us, systems that can understand a natural language or perceive and comprehend a visual scene and systems that perform other types of feats that require human types of intelligence.
Definition 2
It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.
Intelligence
Dictionaries define intelligence as the ability to acquire,understand and apply knowledge or the ability to exercise thought and reason.
Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world. Varying kinds and degrees of intelligence occur in people, many animals and some machines.
Intelligence embodies all of the knowledge and feats, both conscious and unconscious, which we have acquired through study and experience; highly refined sight and sound perception; thought ; imagination; the ability to converse,read,write,drive a car,memorize and recall facts,express and feel emotions; and much more.
The food for intelligence is Knowledge.
Knowledge
Knowledge can be defined as the body of facts and principles accumulated by human kind or the act,fact or state of knowing.
Belief
Belief is defined as any meaningful and coherent expression that can be represented.Thus , a belief may be true or false.
Hypothesis
Hypothesis is a justified belief that is not known to be true.Thus, a hypothesis is a belief which is backed up with some supporting evidence,but it may still be false.
With these terms,Knowledge can be defined as true justified belief.
Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge.
Metaknowledge is knowledge about knowledge ,i.e., knowledge about what we know.
Applications of AI
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AI Application |
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Branches of AI |