Artificial Intelligence: Putting it to Work in the Intelligent Enterprise

Coined in the 1950s, AI is a broad reference that includes a set of methods, algorithms and technologies that make the underlying software seem capable of exhibiting behavior or intelligence which is indistinguishable from a human. The most widely-known AI experiment is also one of the first: The Turing Test developed by Alan Turing in 1950 (the image below provides a brief AI development timeline) at the University of Manchester. The Turing Test contains criteria to determine whether a computer has human-like intelligence by convincing a human questioner that s/he is speaking to a human, not a computer. Since this time, the concept of AI has ballooned to include machine learning (deep learning), computer vision, natural language processing, robotics and more. But remember, all these AI technologies go to serve the goal of AI – to exhibit human-like behavior and intelligence.