What is Artificial Intelligence? | Quick Learner

when you hear the term artificial intelligence what comes to mind super-powered robots hyper-intelligent devices science fiction has familiarized the world with the concept but outside of hollywood what is artificial intelligence and what can ai actually do for starters ai involves using computers to do things that usually require human intelligence humans can see with their eyes and process what they see we can understand our environments and move around within them our brains have the ability

to see patterns and we have the ability to understand spoken language artificial intelligence is a broad branch of computer science that includes many different terms in order for computers to achieve these capabilities they require lots and lots of data large data sets allow ai algorithms to identify patterns make predictions and recommend actions artificial intelligence is already all around us but today's best ai still can't compete with the human brain in some ways for example in 2016 the co

mputer program alphago defeated a legendary professional go player but if you ask that same computer to drive a car or walk or even play monopoly it wouldn't be able to do so on its own ai's computing power is massive but our human brains are able to tackle a much wider set of data and methods