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Artificial Intelligence is the field of
creating systems that can perceive,
reason, learn, and act with a degree of
autonomy in order to achieve goals in
environments that would normally
require human intelligence.
It is a period of Civil War.
AI History
Artificial Intelligence, as a formal field of study, has been around for roughly 70 years.
• Key milestones:
• 1950 – Alan Turing publishes “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” and proposes the Turing Test.
• 1956 – The term “Artificial Intelligence” is coined at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project, generally
considered the birth of the field.
• 1960s–1980s – Early symbolic AI, expert systems, and rule-based reasoning.
• 1990s–2000s – Statistical machine learning becomes dominant.
• 2010s–present – Deep learning and large-scale neural networks drive modern breakthroughs (speech
recognition, vision, large language models, etc.)
AI as Solution Tools
Expert Systems
Problem Type: Codified human decision logic
•Rule-based diagnosis and troubleshooting
•Compliance and policy enforcement
•Configuration and validation of complex
systems
•Deterministic advisory systems (e.g., medical,
legal, engineering checklists)
Machine Learning
Problem Type: Pattern learning from structured
data
•Classification and regression
•Anomaly and fraud detection
•Recommendation systems
•Forecasting and trend modelling
Probabilistic & Statistical AI
Problem Type: Reasoning under uncertainty
•Risk assessment and prediction with
confidence bounds
•Bayesian inference and causal modelling
•Sensor fusion
•Decision-making with incomplete or noisy data
Evolutionary & Bio-Inspired AI
Problem Type: Global optimization in complex
search spaces
•Design optimization (engineering,
architecture, circuits)
•Scheduling and resource allocation
•Strategy evolution
•Hyperparameter and architecture search
Fuzzy Systems
Problem Type: Control and reasoning with
vague or imprecise inputs
•Industrial process control
•Consumer electronics control logic
•Human-like decision modelling
•Linguistic variable handling (“warm”, “fast”,
“high risk”)
Hybrid AI
Problem Type: Systems requiring both
reasoning and learning
•Neuro-symbolic reasoning
•Explainable AI in regulated domains
•Complex decision support combining rules +
data
•Cognitive architectures
Embodied & Robotics AI
Problem Type: Physical interaction and real-
world autonomy
•Navigation and mapping (SLAM)
•Manipulation and grasping
•Human-robot interaction
•Real-time perception-action loops
Deep Learning
Problem Type: High-dimensional perception and
representation learning
•Computer vision
•Speech recognition
•Audio and signal understanding
•Feature extraction from unstructured data
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Problem Type: Linguistic structure and meaning
•Parsing and syntax
•Named entity recognition
•Machine translation
•Information extraction
•Sentiment and intent analysis
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Problem Type: Generalized cognitive and
generative reasoning over language
•Natural language understanding and
generation
•Knowledge synthesis and summarisation
•Code generation and reasoning
•Dialogue and instruction following
•Cross-domain problem solving in symbolic
form
Case studies
Human Eminence
Humans have forms of intelligence grounded in consciousness, embodied experience, and intrinsic motivation
that current AI systems do not possess. Don’t forget Love and personal drive.
Conscious subjective experience
Humans have first-person awareness:
sensations, emotions, and a continuous
sense of self.
AI has no inner experience; it processes
symbols and data without awareness.
General, open-ended
understanding
Humans can transfer knowledge across
radically different domains using common
sense and world models formed through
lived experience.
AI generalizes statistically within training
distributions and lacks true, unified world
understanding.
Intentionality and meaning
Human thoughts are about things in the
world; they carry intrinsic meaning.
AI manipulates representations that have
meaning only because humans interpret
them.
Moral agency and value
formation
Humans can originate values, feel
obligation, guilt, purpose, and
responsibility.
AI can optimize for encoded objectives but
cannot genuinely hold or create values.
Embodied intuition and physical
common sense
Humans acquire deep physical and social
intuition by growing up in a body in a
social world.
AI can model such patterns but does not
possess the same sensorimotor
grounding.
Creative intent
Humans create with an internal sense of
purpose, emotion, and personal narrative.
AI recombines and extrapolates patterns
without experiencing intent or meaning.
AI can replicate many outputs of
human intelligence, but it does not
possess the underlying subjective,
intentional, and value-forming
capacities that characterise human
minds.
AI may recommend, prioritise, predict,
and optimize.
Humans must retain authority to decide,
override, and bear responsibility
whenever fundamental rights, safety,
liberty, or life outcomes are at stake.