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Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence studies how to build systems that perform tasks which, when done by people, are said to require intelligence: reasoning, learning, perception and language understanding among them. The field takes its name from a 1956 summer workshop at Dartmouth College, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon, where McCarthy proposed the term. Its history has moved through repeated cycles of rapid progress and disillusionment, commonly called AI winters, as different approaches, symbolic reasoning, expert systems, and later statistical machine learning and neural networks, rose and fell in favor.

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Origin Year
1956 1
The year of the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, where John McCarthy proposed the field's name.
Core Concern
How to build systems that reason, learn, perceive or use language in ways that would be called intelligent if done by a person. 2
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Computational creativity sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence with cognitive psychology, philosophy and the arts.

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Evolutionary programming, a founding strand of evolutionary computation, was considered an artificial intelligence endeavor from its 1962 origin.

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Human-based computation is described as central to training deep-learning AI systems.

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John McCarthy, Pioneers

John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence for the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, the workshop that founded the field as a distinct research area.

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Machine learning is studied as a field within artificial intelligence.

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Multi-agent systems research is characterized in its own article as concerned with AI problem-solving architectures.

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Neuromorphic computing is aimed explicitly at artificial intelligence applications among others.

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Swarm intelligence is explicitly employed in artificial intelligence work per its own lead.

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Source Wikipedia: Marvin Minsky
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1. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson, Simon and Schuster, 2014
2. Encyclopedia Britannica: Computer Science
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Wikipedia: Artificial intelligence
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Artificial intelligence is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making.
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ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations
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Wikipedia: Machine learning
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Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence
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Wikipedia: Computer Vision
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In the late 1960s, computer vision began at universities that were pioneering artificial intelligence.
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Robotic programs can be run by remote control, artificial intelligence (AI), or a hybrid of the two.
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Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
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NLP is a subfield of computer science and is closely associated with artificial intelligence.
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Analyzing biological data to produce meaningful information involves writing and running software programs that use algorithms from graph theory, artificial intelligence, soft computing, data mining, image processing, and computer simulation.
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Computational Creativity (Wikipedia)
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Computational creativity (also known as artificial creativity, mechanical creativity, creative computing or creative computation) is a multidisciplinary endeavour that is located at the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and the arts.
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Evolutionary Computation (Wikipedia)
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In 1962, Lawrence J. Fogel initiated the research of Evolutionary Programming in the United States, which was considered an artificial intelligence endeavor.
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Human-Based Computation (Wikipedia)
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For computationally difficult tasks such as image recognition, human-based computation plays a central role in training deep learning-based Artificial Intelligence systems.
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Multi-Agent Systems (Wikipedia)
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The study of multi-agent systems is "concerned with the development and analysis of sophisticated AI problem-solving and control architectures..."
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Neuromorphic Computing (Wikipedia)
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Neuromorphic systems aim to enhance energy efficiency and computational power for applications including artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and sensory processing.
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Swarm Intelligence (Wikipedia)
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The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence.
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Wikipedia: Marvin Minsky
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Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927, January 24, 2016) was an American mathematician who conducted research in the cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Human-Robot Interaction (Wikipedia)
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Human-robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between humans and robots. Human-robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing, design, psychology and philosophy.
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