Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

What is Artificial Intelligence ?

“The science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs”. -John McCarthy-

Artificial Intelligence is an approach to make a computer, a robot, or a product to think how smart human think. AI is a study of how human brain think, learn, decide and work, when it tries to solve problems. And finally this study outputs intelligent software systems. The aim of AI is to improve computer functions which are related to human knowledge, for example, reasoning, learning, and problem-solving.

What are its Applications ?

• Gaming − AI plays important role for machine to think of large number of possible positions based on deep knowledge in strategic games. for example, chess,river crossing, N-queens problems and etc.
• Natural Language Processing − Interact with the computer that understands natural language spoken by humans.
• Expert Systems − Machine or software provide explanation and advice to the users.
• Vision Systems − Systems understand, explain, and describe visual input on the computer.
• Speech Recognition − There are some AI based speech recognition systems have ability to hear and express as sentences and understand their meanings while a person talks to it. For example Siri and Google assistant.
• Handwriting Recognition − The handwriting recognition software reads the text written on paper and recognize the shapes of the letters and convert it into editable text.
• Intelligent Robots − Robots are able to perform the instructions given by a human.

Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

Artificial intelligence algorithms are generally grouped into three categories. These are Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, and Reinforcement Learning. This webpage mostly focuses on Neural Networks, Search Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning.