Human (or natural) intelligence comprises several di¤erent types of mental activities. These include simple computation, data processing, pattern recognition, prediction, various types of problem solving, judgment, creativity, and communication. Early
Over the past decades computers have broadly automated tasks that programmers could describe with clear rules and algorithms. Modern machine learning techniques now allow us to do the same for tasks where describing the precise rules is much harder. Jeff Bezos in his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders
For starters, let's just assume artificial intelligence is about making computers smart in the way that we consider each other smart: that is, we can talk and understand each other, we can see the world and work out plans to get from home to a friend's house, we can learn new behavior like knitting or playing basketball by watching other people, and so forth.
Artificial Intelligence as a term is incredibly broad and often misrepresented. Not to be confused with Machine Learning (which is just a method for achieving artificial intelligence), computer scientist Joanna Bryson finds it useful to start first with a basic definition of intelligence which she describes as simply “behaving appropriately to the context”. She goes on to describe how Artificial intelligence is anything that a human has built, that does the below:
At its most basic, think of AI less as a sentient robot from the Jetsons and instead, as perhaps just a parking meter.
Industrial Revolution in Britain were aimed at automating weaving and spinning, and the focus then shifted to the factory floors of other industries