Artificial Intelligence - Man Vs Machine

Human civilization has come a long way since the times of using Stone Age and Iron Age implements for hunting, agriculture, mobility and in general, for addressing all aspects of human existence . The basic urge to improve the quality of life by using tools is perhaps hardwired into the human brain as evidenced by many inventions across all the cultures of the world, including primitive societies of today. With the advent of industrial revolution in England in 17th century, machines came to be invented and the power of coal, and later electricity and other sources of energy came to be harnessed for purposes which were until then undertaken by manual or animal labour or even impossible to be done. One basic characteristic of all human inventions which continue unabated till date has been that though they helped reduce the drudgery of humankind, they were designed to merely obey human commands and often perform repetitive jobs with immense power, precision, unerring accuracy and efficiencies bordering on the unfathomable . In other words, most machines were "dumb" and possessed no "native" intelligence that would enable them to learn, memorize and execute tasks of ambiguity like humans do.