Module 5 - Artificial intelligence
Module 5 - Objectives
| Describe the origins and applications of Artificial Intelligence. |
| Identify major milestones in the development of Artificial Intelligence. |
| Identify ways in which Artificial Intelligence can be used. |
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the art and science of creating computer systems that simulate human thought and behavior.
Research in artificial intelligence, or AI, is of interest to many professionals, including computer scientists, psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists, engineers, data scientists and others who often collaborate on AI research. While AI research is the domain of scientists, AI applications are impacting all industries and touching all of our lives. Most of us use AI technologies every day without even knowing it. Web search engines and personal digital assistants like Siri use AI to provide useful information and search results. Ecommerce websites display products that you are likely to buy based on your previous behavior and purchases. From face recognition for photos in Facebook, to driverless vehicles, and a million other applications in between, AI is providing new, revolutionary services every day, often with complex, controversial ethical considerations.
Required Readings
Artificial intelligence describes a wide range of software that is modeled on or imitates human intelligence to various degrees. Human intelligence is notoriously difficult to define, however, so any software development project tasked with perfectly replicating the human capacity for creativity, intuition, and inspiration is immediately faced with daunting technological and philosophical challenges.
A much more productive approach to AI has been to choose a smaller subset of human intellectual skills, such as the ability to recognize faces or voices, and leverage the exponentially increasing processing power of computers to meet, and surpass, human abilities in those areas.
AI applications are ways in which AI methodologies are applied to solve problems and provide services.
Research and innovation in artificial intelligence are impacting lives in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.From software that anticipates the user’s needs to robots that assist the elderly, to applications thatpredict trends in the stock market, to cars that drive themselves, artificial intelligence is being used in many applications.
This work, “Module 5 - Artificial Intelligence", is a derivative of "Introduction to Computing Reading & Learning Objectives” by OpenNow from Cengage, used under CC BY. "Module 5– Artificial Intelligence" is licensed under CC BY by Carlos Julien.
