Artificial intelligence (AI) is the study and creation of intelligent machines and software. The document discusses the history and goals of AI, including how it was founded in the 1950s and experienced periods of increased and decreased funding. It also covers what intelligence is, definitions of artificial intelligence, tools and applications of AI in various industries, as well as the pros and cons of AI technology.

1. Artificial
Intelligence
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2. What Is Artificial
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•Made or produced by human beings
rather than occurring naturally,
typically as a copy of something
Natural.
•Not existing naturally

3. What Is Intelligence
• Intelligence is the ability to learn
about, to learn from, to understand
about, and interact with one’s
environment.
•The ability to acquire and apply
knowledge and skills.
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4. What Is Artificial Intelligence
the study and design of Intelligent agents.
John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defines it as "the
science and engineering of making intelligent machines“
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology and a branch of computer
science that studies and develops intelligent machines and
software.
where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its
environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of
success
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5. What Is Artificial Intelligence
The field was founded on the claim that a central ability of humans,
intelligence.
AI research is highly technical and specialized, deeply divided into
subfields. There are subfields which are focused on the solution of
specific problems, on one of several possible approaches, on the use of
widely differing tools and towards the accomplishment of particular
applications. There are an enormous number of tools used in AI,
including versions of search and mathematical optimization, logic,
methods based on probability and economics, and many others. Today
it has become an essential part of the technology industry and many of
the most difficult problems in computer science.
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6. History of Artificial Intelligence
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The field of AI research was founded at a conference on the campus of Dartmouth
College in the summer of 1956. The attendees, including John McCarthy, Marvin
Minsky, Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, became the leaders of AI research for
many decades. Computers were solving word problems in algebra, proving logical
theorems and speaking English. By the middle of the 1960s, research in the U.S.
was heavily funded by the Department of Defense and laboratories had been
established around the world. They had failed to recognize the difficulty of some
of the problems they faced. In 1974, in response to the criticism of Sir James
Lighthill and ongoing pressure from the US Congress to fund more productive
projects, both the U.S. and British governments cut off all undirected exploratory
research in AI. The next few years would later be called an "AI winter", a period
when funding for AI projects was hard to find.

7. History of Artificial Intelligence
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In the early 1980s, AI research was revived by the commercial success of expert
systems, a form of AI program that simulated the knowledge and analytical skills of
one or more human experts. By 1985 the market for AI had reached over a billion
dollars. At the same time, Japan's fifth generation computer project inspired the
U.S and British governments to restore funding for academic research in the field.
However, beginning with the collapse of the Lisp Machine market in 1987, AI once
again fell into disrepute, and a second, longer lasting AI winter began. In the 1990s
and early 21st century, AI achieved its greatest successes. Artificial intelligence is
used for logistics, data mining, medical diagnosis and many other areas
throughout the technology industry.[12] The success was due to several factors:
the increasing computational power of computers (see Moore's law), a greater
emphasis on solving specific sub problems, the creation of new ties between AI
and other fields working on similar problems, and a new commitment by
researchers to solid mathematical methods and rigorous scientific standards.

8. Goals or fields of AI
 Deduction, reasoning, problem solving.
 Knowledge representation.
 Planning.
 Learning.
 Natural language processing.
 Motion and manipulation.
 Perception.
 Social intelligence.
 Creativity.
 General intelligence.
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9. Tools of AI
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 Search and optimization.
 Logic.
 Probabilistic methods for uncertain reasoning.
 Classifiers and statistical learning methods.
 Neural networks.
 Control theory.
 Languages.
 Evaluating progress.

10. Uses or Applications of AI
 Finance.
 Hospitals and Medicines.
 Heavy Industry.
 Online and TCS.
 Transportation.
 Video games.
 Military.
 Space science.
 Music
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11. Pros. of AI
• Ability to simulate human behavior and
cognitive processes Capture and preserve
human expertise
Fast Response.
• The ability to comprehend large amounts of
data quickly.
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12. Cons. of AI
• No “common sense”.
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• Cannot readily deal with “mixed”
knowledge.
• May have high development costs.
• Raise legal and ethical concerns.

13. Need of AI
To supplement natural intelligence for e.g. we
are building intelligence in an object so that it
can do what we want it to do, as for example--
robots, thus reducing human labour and
reducing human mistakes
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