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Task 1: What is AI?
AI or Artificial Intelligence covers a massive range of things, and is conceived in different ways by almost everybody. ... The original research into AI in the early years was focused mainly on the latter definition, and is nowadays more of a concept for a horrible, cheap movie than an area that is undergoing any real research or making any progress.
AI is seen in so many walks of life in these modern times that we hardly notice, yet these are things that thirty years ago would have been seen as advanced AI, but are now seen as mere functions of the system in which they are implemented. ... The tasks carried out by the spell checking software help it come to a conclusion, and this makes it a form of AI, yet most people just see it as a simple task that their computer should be able to carry out. ...
This is applied in AI in a very similar way – if a program does what it is told to do and nothing else (in the case of the wasp it was doing what it was ‘told to do’ by its nature, rather than programmers): then it is just a program, nothing more. ... Modern computer games are often much harder, as the AI is quite often very powerful, and the enemies will act according to the situation – hiding from the players sight when the player approaches in order to ambush them and launch a more effective attack is just one display of intelligence in machines. ...
SHRDLU was an early robot (developed in the early 1970’s) that was at the time thought to show very highly advanced AI, as it could answer questioning about its actions in the English language. ... This was, in my opinion still expressing AI, as it could put its explanation into words, which takes intelligence.
One of the leading, and earliest serious researchers into AI in history was Alan Turing – a British logician, who’s goal in developing AI was to develop a ‘computer which learns from experience’, this was his idea of what AI is, and should be. He researched into many fields of AI, but his best known was started in 1950; this was the ‘Turing Test’ in which he would set a person up in front of a computer screen and keyboard, they would be the ‘interrogator’, another person, known as the foil, and a computer – all three would communicate in a conversation (all they would see of each other is the text on their screen), and the interrogator could ask each of the other participants, any question they liked. ... Still now - even the best programmers in the world have been unable to write a program to beat the Turing test, and it has been the definitive test for AI systems.
Approximate Word count = 2258
Approximate Pages = 9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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