What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its simplest definition, is a way to simulate human intelligence (be human-like) in machines. Artificial intelligence can acquire experiences and self-train as it analyzes data and is being designed to recognize speech, images and patterns. The difference between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, in this regard, is its ability to analyze a vast amount of data and provide predictions and processes in significantly shorter times. As computing accelerates, predictive model times are decreasing from hours to minutes.

Since its inception in 1956, AI has been defined by its goals and objectives:

• Learning: Understanding the human world of objects and people and their complex relationships. This is a phenomenon through which a system is trained to give accurate results.
• Audio-visual perception: Achieving image or object recognition and language processing.
• Goal-based problem solving: Solving problems by finding the sequence of actions leading to desirable goals.
• Knowledge representation: Representing the knowledge of the world in a computer-understandable format.
• Pattern recognition: Processing of recognized patterns by using advanced computer algorithms. It is the classification of data based on previously learned knowledge.