A Brief Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the science of making machines smart using algorithms to help computers solve problems, which used to be solved only by humans. Most AI examples that you hear about today -- chatboxes to self-driving cars -- rely heavily on deep learning and machine learning. Using these technologies, computers can be trained to accomplish specific tasks by processing large amounts of data and recognizing patterns in the data. AI is not as modern as we think it is. AI dates all the way back to 1950 when Alan Turing created the Turing test. Later in the 1960s, ELIZA, the first chatbot program, was created.