AI Technology

As the name suggests Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology and a branch of computer science that studies and develops intelligent machines and software. Artificial Intelligence can be also called as the 5th Generation of Computers which are underdevelopment. AI technology is the development of intelligent agents, this  is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success.  John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955,defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, including research into areas such as scheduling and planning, intelligent and expert systems (including decision support), machine learning and agents. As a whole, this research area supports other areas of ICT and beyond; for example, machine learning techniques are widely used in computer vision or speech recognition.

History of artificial intelligence

The field of AI research was founded at a conference on the campus of Dartmouth College in the 1956. Those who attended would become the leaders of AI research for decades. Many of them predicted that a machine as intelligent as a human being would exist in no more than a generation and they were given millions of dollars to make this vision come true. Eventually it became obvious that they had grossly underestimated the difficulty of the project. Seven years later, a visionary initiative by the Japanese Government inspired governments and industry to provide AI with billions of dollars, but by the late 80s the investors became disillusioned and withdrew funding again. This cycle of boom and bust, of "AI winters" and summers, continues to haunt the field. Undaunted, there are those who make extraordinary predictions even now.

In the 1940s and 50s, a handful of scientists from a variety of fields (mathematics, psychology, engineering, economics and political science) began to discuss the possibility of creating an artificial brain. The field of artificial intelligence research was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. This marks the birth of Artificial Intelligence.

Advantages of Artificial Intelligence

We even daily use AI technology to some extend for e.g in voice recognition system, or while playing computer games against computer,  or challenging a computer opponent to chess. Many  companies such as  Electric Sheep Company and other firms has the potential to initiate a new age of  AI.

Novamente claims that its system is the first to allow artificial intelligences to progress through a process of self-analysis and learning [source: Novamente]. The company hopes that its AI will also distinguish itself from other attempts at AI by surprising its creators in its capabilities -- for example, by learning a skill or task that it wasn't programmed to perform. Novamente has already created what it terms an "artificial baby" in the AGISim virtual world [source: Novamente]. This artificial baby has learned to perform some basic functions.

Thus this technology can be used in learning by developing special programed Tutor Robots to teach. We can even develop robots for household works for e.g they can be treated as the servants.