Introduction to intelligent computing unit 1

The advent of digital computers has led to the automation of many tasks perform by human beings. Until recently, some automated tasks were solved based on direct mapping of input to output and the computer is programme to continuously follow the specified instructions. This form of problem solving may be viewed as lacking intelligence. The need for intelligent programs to tackle real life problems was the major challenge to scientists in the 1950s. During this period scientists came up with the interdisciplinary field which is today known as the artificial intelligence [23]. Main goal of AI is to automate human tasks that require intelligence such as pattern recognition, machine translation, computer vision etc. Human beings are naturally endowed with the ability to derive knowledge from their environment through careful observation to learn distinguishing features or unique patterns in objects.