How does Artificial Intelligence Works?

Artificial Intelligence has different meanings for different people. A broad definition, based on what the fathers of the concept Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy said, is that artificial intelligence is all about machines performing the tasks that traditionally needed human intelligence.

This is a comprehensive as well as simpler way of making sense of what Al could be. This definition, however, can convolute things if we use it to decide which technology is Al-oriented and which is not.

Before Minsky and McCarthy, there was another man who was the first to ask the consequential question - "can machines think?" It was Mathematician Alan Turing, after changing the direction of World War II, who wrote a significant paper on "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in 1950 that later became the fundamental vision for artificial intelligence as a technology concept.

Since Turing asked the question, another branch of computer engineering science came into existence that solely worked to answer what Turning asked through every new breakthrough. With artificial intelligence, scientists asked themselves and answered whether the next machine they are working on is capable of thinking or not. Artificial intelligence since then has become the science that makes machines think and our world easier for humans in the process.

There are many modern definitions that throw more light into the concept and how it is actually applied in use. An artificial intelligence researcher at Google who created the machine-learning software library Keras, Francois Chollet also gave a working definition of the concept. Chollet said, "Intelligence is the efficiency with which you acquire new skills at tasks you didn't previously prepare for. Intelligence is not a skill itself; it's not what you can do; it's how well and how efficiently you can learn new things."