Artificial Intelligence - the Time is Now - IT Peer Network

The vision that computers could emulate human reasoning and decision making arose in the 1940s--soon after the development of modern computers themselves. There have been long periods when progress was scant, but Artificial Intelligence is now poised to take off. To understand why now is the time, let's look for a minute at then. The challenge with AI has always been to understand how humans represent knowledge and how they apply it to make decisions. The idea was to capture the knowledge of experts along with a set of rules that governed how to apply it.