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What is AI?

 It actually seems funny to write answer to this question (as it's so unusual to find an article about this these days 🤔). 



AI is short for Artificial Intelligence or intelligence which is created by humans. But what is intelligence then?

Intelligence breaks into the tasks that beings are capable of doing. Like thinking, memorising, remembering, deciding, reasoning, predicting, recognising, improving, inventing, reproducing, dreaming, assuming, surviving, feeling, hoping, coping, all these tasks ending with an 'ing' reminds us that they will never end until life (except for reproducing😉). The thing that makes beings actually alive is knowing that they are. 

But are all the beings intelligent? Not all of them carry out all those tasks. As being smartest of all we humans still don't know if a mouse dreams or not (atleast Jerry does😏). But we do know, beings with a smaller brain or number of brain cells cannot carry out complex tasks. I'm sure ameoba can't recognise things. Many humans too can't do them all. But even if we call our friends 'stupid' sometimes, doesn't mean they aren't intelligent creatures. 

Generally, if a computer system is said to be AI enabled, it just means that it can perform some of the intelligent tasks. The field has been divided into two ANI & AGI. 

ANI stands for Artificial Narrow Intelligence, which is focused on making systems able to handle one particular task. AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence, which focuses on making sophisticated systems imitating humans. 

The field is being dig up (most of the algorithms actually in use are probably older than you 🧝‍♀️) due to data and processing power. 

There have been opposing views whether AGI is possible or not and even if it is then how far is it. 

John Mccarthy once said "If we ever succeed in creating an Artificial Intelligence (here AGI) and we were to write it in a book, the most difficult part of it will be to explain why it took this long.." 

Not exact words though but the meaning remains pretty much the same, it's all just about perspective, it might be right in front of us, and we just need an appropriate set of glasses. 


Closing remarks, wiki who is John Mccarthy 🤔







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