Definition
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science focused on creating systems that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence. These tasks include problem solving, learning, perception, and language understanding.
Purpose
The purpose is to design systems that can automate cognitive tasks, assist decision-making, and operate at scale. AI is used in healthcare, transportation, finance, manufacturing, and everyday consumer products.
Importance
- Expands automation from manual labor to cognitive functions.
- Powers breakthroughs in data analysis and robotics.
- Raises ethical and social issues about fairness, privacy, and accountability.
- Foundation for subfields like ML, NLP, and computer vision.
How It Works
- Define a task needing intelligence (e.g., classification, planning).
- Collect and preprocess relevant data.
- Apply algorithms (e.g., rules, ML, deep learning).
- Train models to learn from examples.
- Evaluate performance and refine approaches.
- Deploy models in real-world applications.
Examples (Real World)
- IBM Watson: supports medical decision-making.
- Tesla Autopilot: AI applied in autonomous driving assistance.
- ChatGPT: LLM for natural language understanding and generation.
References / Further Reading
- Artificial Intelligence — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach — Russell & Norvig, Pearson.
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework — NIST.