Defining Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Basically, it means “making machines intelligent”, so they can take some decisions on their own according to the situations without the need of any human interference. The phrase was coined, says The Economist, in a research proposal written in 1956. The defining feature of artificial intelligence is that behavior is learned from data rather than explicitly programmed. The current excitement about the field was kick-started in 2012 by an online contest called the ImageNet Challenge, in which the goal was getting computers to recognize and label images automatically.

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