Topics: Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of machines to mimic human capabilities in a way that we would consider'smart'. You most likely have come across – or are aware of – AI applications such as self-driving cars, facial recognition, chess or go players, security systems, or speech/voice recognition (for example, those used in an intelligent virtual assistant). In conventional computing, a programmer writes a computer program that precisely instructs a computer what to do to solve a particular problem. With AI, however, the programmer instead writes a program that allows the computer to learn to solve a problem by itself. That sounds like overdoing it, but this is really the way we do things.