There's no denying that artificial intelligence is lightyears ahead of what it was just a few years ago. The technology continues to advance at an ever-increasing rate. But the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence researchers is to replicate human intelligence. So how do artificial intelligence and human intelligence measure up? Why even try If after all these years, human intelligence is still vastly superior to artificial intelligence, why do artificial intelligence researchers even bother?

The concept of artificial intelligence began as pure fiction, something to be imagined but never actually existing. Today, we know that that's no longer the case. Artificial Intelligence is real and there are already real-world applications where artificial intelligence is helping us solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity. Here's a look at how artificial intelligence has developed through the years. Greek myths The earliest known reference to something we could term artificial intelligence dates back to the ancient Greeks.