| Software is now being developed which will enable
computers to learn and
reason.
eg some chess game programs get better the more they are played -
the computer remembers 'when I made that move, I lost...therefore
find an alternative'.
AI is difficult to
define. Alan Turing (a prominent mathematician) developed a simple
test (1950) to determine if a computer possessed intelligence :
Suppose there are two identical
terminals in a room, one connected to a computer, and the other
operated by a person. If someone using the two terminals is unable
to tell which is connected to the computer and which is operated by
the person, then the computer can be credited with intelligence.
AI research includes -
- language processing -
understanding and speaking languages as well as humans.
- computer vision -
recognising and analysing objects.
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ELIZA
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