What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
Artificial intelligence is primarily concerned with how the brain works and how machines may be designed to simulate its activity. The purpose of AI is to make computer programs think like us and perform intelligent tasks. The main research areas in artificial intelligence can be divided into some categories: • Game Playing – Having computers play games efficiently • Expert Systems – An Expert System can solve real world problems by following the same IF/THEN rules a human expert follows. Expert Systems are useful for diagnostic problem solving. The Expert System MYCIN is a world class medical expert. • Natural Language Understanding – Natural Language Software is the branch of AI that focuses on getting computers to understand spoken or typed English. • Machine Learning – This branch of AI studies the computer’s ability to learn • Robotics – creating robots that simulate human movement or human responses • Neural Networks – A neural network is a digitized model of a human brain, simul
