Thursday, May 29, 2008

AI what is it??


There have been countless Hollywood flicks that show robots which were supposedly designed to help humans in their day to day life revolt and enslave or kill their masters. We wonder from where did they get such a kind of idea. Aint they just programed to do a certain set of tasks. Basically, yes . But these kind of robots can only be used for a specific kind of purpose. They cannot adapt themselves to the environment if any other kind of situtaion arises which is not present in their programming.Their they have a need to analyse the situation and act accordingly. For example if we have a household robot which cooks food and maintains the house, it cannot be resilent if a fire breaks out in the house or nearby, it must immediately act consequently. If a robot is made aware of such kind of innumerable things and has a lot of flexibility built into its programming such that it acts appropriately to any type of situation then we call it artifical intelligence since its behaviour is replicating that of a human being. We have seen the interface named "VIKKI" which acts for the greater good of the mankind in the hit movie "I,ROBOT" which stars Will Smith and explains the 3 laws for robots. But AI is now a reality and are in a very progressive stage of development.


There is this site which will give us all we need to know about Artifical Intelligence




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