Define Artificial Intelligence?

Question

Give me full details on what basis you have defined artificial intelligence. i.e a defination with eg. of pratical life.

Answer 1

Be sure to understand what artificial intelligence really means. Or more importantly "intelligence". Thats not the same as wisdom or creativity or even lerning (though thats hoped for in the future). Intelligence is knowledge and making the right choice. AI is in auto-pilots, and vending machines, and microwave ovens, installation software. Its taking the straight line without choosing anything stupid.

AI Researchers joked that AI stood for 'almost implemented'. AI research projects that worked well enough to make it on to the market, such as speech recognition, language translation, decision-support software, landing planes, reading hand-written postcards to sort mail, are suddenly no longer AI.

That is not at all the same as AH (artificially human). Games are a great example. People complain often that the opponent in a game is stupid. They complain that the AI is crap. But its not the AI. On a battle map, to go from point A to point B for "artificial intelligence" is a straight line, go around obstacles. But players would ambush that every time. They want it to maybe go straight, maybe flanking, maybe a snaek around and rear attack, maybe a fakeout then up the side, and maybe even a random chance of something stupid that might work because you didnt expect anything stupid.

But thats not AI, thats AH. AI is done all the time but AH projects (art, music, games, anything with some creativity) are much more interesting. Its a giggle amoung AI programmers that the difference between AI and AH is to throw out some of the intelligence and add more randoms.

Answer 2

Artificial intelligence is the engineering breakthrough that is right around the corner. And always will be.

There has not been one successful product that was based on AI. Things like the Romba robotic vacuum cleaner are no more intelligent than an ant. Probably less so. To me that does not live up to the hype.

Neither do research products that try to mimic intelligence. All of them are restricted to tiny domains and either work by brute force, e.g. chess engines and the Cyc system, AIs probably most colossal failure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

or by abusing the definition of what they are supposed to do like chatbots which simply use the redundancy in human small talk rather than to actually take a shot at real understanding of what is being said.

There is not much in-between these two extremes that would be worth mentioning.

:-)

Answer 3

Artificial Intelligence is any program or part of program that is capable of substituting a human operator, to make decisions based on the situation it is facing. The most sophisticated of all AI can even "learn from experience", although AI designed to learn is quite rare. AI is often used in robotics and gaming. In robotic, AI is useful to create an AI that is self-capable, independent of human operator, which is especially useful in a field where quick-response is needed, but transmission of order might not reach the robot fast enough (like in interspace mission) or human operator would not be capable of making decision in time. Robot is not the AI itself, the AI resides on the robots' processing unit and the robot is controlled by AI, but the robot itself is not an AI. In gaming, AI, sometimes known as bot, AI would play like human player play, wherever human player might not always be available.

Answer 4

a neural network. It is created as a computer program usually but it could be built with wires (in theory), having nodes connected by lines (like neurons in the human brain) and having inputs and outputs and being programmed with the capacity to learn (modify the strength of the signal of each node or the resistance of each connection betwee nodes) so that by validating "correct answer" or "incorrect answer" you can teach it to give correct outputs for inputs.

I worked on on in college, the input was a set of #'s 1-255 which came from a black-n-white image of a number - each input # was the pixel's grey-scale value. there were 10 outputs -- zero through 9. the point was the it is impossible to program a computer to recongize something so organic as hand-writing, but by writing this as a neural net it could be taught to recognize it.

another use of the term AI is in computer games, such as the decisions made by non-player-characters in a game like Oblivion (which was WAY over-hyped, they did none of the things they were supposed to do). I don't believe this is real AI, this is just little static programs that are able to make decisions based on input and maybe some random numbers. a real AI is something that is capable of learning -- iether by trial and error or by being taught and THEN by trial an error with a certian goal in mind. But game makers call it "AI" to make it sound cool, and the term is widely used in the game industry to describe choices made by a NPC. the only real AI in any game that i know of was that creature in Black N White which was your pet and you were able to teach it behaviors.

Answer 5

See Congress

Answer 6

Wiki: 'Turing Test`