THE POWER OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Artificial Intelligence is the study of mental faculties through the use of computational models. The occurrence of the word intelligence in the name of this field is misleading. Scientists reserve the word for mental feats of unusual creativity or cleverness. As a consequence, it sounds as if artificial intelligence were a technique for producing an abundance of clever insights. In fact, the most interesting problems for AI arise in the attempts to duplicate the mental faculties of ordinary people, such as vision and natural language. HISTORY During the Second World War, noted British computer scientist Alan Turing cracked the ‘Enigma’ code which was used by German forces to send messages securely using his Bombe Machine. The Enigma and Bombe Machines laid the foundations for Machine Learning. In 1956, American computer scientist John McCarthy organised the Dartmouth Conference, at which the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was first adopted. Als
