Council Post: The Reality Behind The AI Illusion

Though artificial intelligence has evolved recently and appears to be a new phenomenon in modern society, it is much older than you would imagine. Being actively involved in the global AI community, I've noticed that many people still associate AI with sci-fi Hollywood movies displaying the distant future powered by intelligent robots and machines. However, this perception is waning as AI becomes more commonplace in our daily lives. The early instances of intelligent machines were found in ancient Greek mythology with conceptions of mechanical robots made to help the Greek god Hephaestus. Following were some milestones in the history of AI, which started as a field of research in the late 1950s with the development of the first algorithms to solve complex mathematical problems.