The steady growth of Artificial Intelligence from the mid-20th century until now has the potential to bring about broad positive implications for a variety of fields and industries. As with any advancing technology, however, AI carries some risk and challenges that...
The technological advances made by artificial intelligence, especially over the past 15 years, has rekindled the longstanding question about whether such intelligent machines ultimately put humanity at risk. While the entertainment industry has played out such...
Computer scientist John McCarthy was said to have coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” at a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956. The workshop was intended to research ways in which machines could be created to simulate various aspects of...
An intelligent agent is a component of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application. In the simplest terms, it is an entity that does something. It can be an organism such as a rodent or human. It can also be something non-living like a thermostat or self-driving car....
The widespread use of artificial intelligence in society today is a technological wonder. Smart phones, smart cars, automated assembly lines and other intelligent devices make life easier, more productive and more connected to one another. But does this technology...
The human brain is the most sophisticated and powerful of all organisms. At a mere three pounds, it has about 100 billion nerve cells running it along with other types to support its everyday functions. Modeling the human reasoning has presented science with a...
