Wikijunior:How Things Work/AI
AI or Artificial intelligence is a way to make machines learn and think like humans, basically letting the computer learn, reason and automate. AI is used on the computer side that can play games, chat, translate and more.
Who invented it?
[edit | edit source]Alan Turing (1950)
Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Frank Rosenblatt (1950-1960)
How does it get power?
[edit | edit source]AI runs on a computer which requires electricity
How does it work?
[edit | edit source]varying from coded input to neural networks.
How dangerous is it?
[edit | edit source]some people think AI is dangerous, but that's not true, AI is a tool that can help us with a lot of tasks. Compared with a car which can transport a lot of people, it doesn't mean that the car is dangerous, it's the person who drives it who decides if the car is driving safely or not.
The same goes for AI, if people use it to help sick people or complex problems, then AI isn't dangerous, but if they use it to steal secrets or do harm, then AI can be dangerous.
So AI isn't dangerous on itself. It's the way we use it if it is good or bad, and that's why it's important we all learn about AI and how we can use it to make the world a better place.
What does it do?
[edit | edit source]Learn, reason and automate.
How does it vary?
[edit | edit source]From assistance in different tasks as chatting, translating, or being a opponent in a game to self driving vehicles such as autopilot, self driving cars, autonomous drones and robots.
How has it changed the world?
[edit | edit source]AI playing games such as chess and Go versus the human world champion and managing to win.
Self driving vehicles
What idea(s) and/or inventions had to be developed before it could be created?
[edit | edit source]computer technology: computers with a lot of memory and calculation power for complex calculations and data analysis.
algorithms: neural networks and machine learning for learning and reasoning
Data: A lot of data to learn to AI systems
Math: linear algebra and statistics to develop AI algorithms
programming languages: Programming languages such as Python and Java were needed to create and implement AI systems
Inventions:
Transistor: a component that allows making computers small, fast and efficient
Internet: collecting data worldwide
Neural networks: making it possible for computers to learn and reason