Importance of Articicial Intelligence
The Importance of Artificial Intelligence Abstract
Computers are everywhere today. It would be impossible to go your entire life without using a computer. Cars, airplanes, boats, and TVs contain computers that aid them in functioning properly. We even use computers to complete tasks that require lots of time and effort. For this reason, artificial intelligence and computers must become smarter to continually help make our lives easier. This paper describes what artificial intelligence is, the birth of artificial intelligence, the adolescence of artificial intelligence, how it can be used to make our lives easier, and a discussion of weak and strong artificial intelligence. Keywords: artificial, intelligence, weak, strong, adolescence, The Importance of Artificial Intelligence Imagine having to make a thousand wedding invitations for a friend, but computers, printers, and copy machines have not yet been invented. This leaves you with the option of using pen and paper to make each invitation, which means no two invitations will look the same. Now imagine using a computer to make those invitations. Obviously, this option will make your life much easier. You could make one invitation on the computer and print off a thousand copies, or you could print off one copy and use a copy machine to make copies. Both ways offer the benefit of all the invitations looking the same while also making your life a whole lot easier. It is because of situations like these that artificial intelligence and computers are of great importance to our society today. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has many definitions, but as defined by Michael C. Harris it is “the science of creating machines to solve problems and do work that is too complicated for the human brain to do by itself” (Michael, C. H. (2011). Artificial Intelligence pg.5) as stated by Ela Kumar “in simple terms artificial means not real or fake and intelligence possessed by humans may be
Computers are everywhere today. It would be impossible to go your entire life without using a computer. Cars, airplanes, boats, and TVs contain computers that aid them in functioning properly. We even use computers to complete tasks that require lots of time and effort. For this reason, artificial intelligence and computers must become smarter to continually help make our lives easier. This paper describes what artificial intelligence is, the birth of artificial intelligence, the adolescence of artificial intelligence, how it can be used to make our lives easier, and a discussion of weak and strong artificial intelligence. Keywords: artificial, intelligence, weak, strong, adolescence, The Importance of Artificial Intelligence Imagine having to make a thousand wedding invitations for a friend, but computers, printers, and copy machines have not yet been invented. This leaves you with the option of using pen and paper to make each invitation, which means no two invitations will look the same. Now imagine using a computer to make those invitations. Obviously, this option will make your life much easier. You could make one invitation on the computer and print off a thousand copies, or you could print off one copy and use a copy machine to make copies. Both ways offer the benefit of all the invitations looking the same while also making your life a whole lot easier. It is because of situations like these that artificial intelligence and computers are of great importance to our society today. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has many definitions, but as defined by Michael C. Harris it is “the science of creating machines to solve problems and do work that is too complicated for the human brain to do by itself” (Michael, C. H. (2011). Artificial Intelligence pg.5) as stated by Ela Kumar “in simple terms artificial means not real or fake and intelligence possessed by humans may be
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