Artificial Intelligence is here. Get used to IT!

Artificial Intelligence must be the most overused word these days! You will be hard put to find any edition of a newspaper on any day, which does not have at least one reference to AI. Yet interestingly, this is the Second Coming of the technology that is vaguely defined as human-like intelligence displayed by machines and was first mooted in the US at a conference in 1956. Computers were soon winning at checkers, solving word problems in algebra, proving logical theorems and speaking English. The originators of the AI idea including its Bhishma Pitamaha, Marvin Minsky, claimed that Machines would be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a Man can do.