Saturday, August 21, 2010

Introduction: AI

Definition

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a part of computer science that studies how to make the machines (computers) can perform such work and is best done by human beings could even do better than humans.  AI is defined as intelligence exhibited by anything manufactured (i.e. artificial) by humans or other sentient beings or systems (should such things ever exist on Earth or elsewhere). It is usually hypothetically applied to general-purpose computers. The term is also used to refer to the field of scientific investigation into the plausibility of and approaches to creating such systems. It is commonly abbreviated as AI, and is also known as machine intelligence.

Human may be more sensible to solve all the problems in his live because have the knowledge and experience. The knowledge gained from the study, more shares owned by an individual knowledge and of course, expected to be more able to solve the problem. But knowing is not enough, human also are given a mind to make reasoning, reach conclusions based on the knowledge and experience they have. Without the ability to reason or people with lots of experience and knowledge won't able to solve the problem correctly. Furthermore, human with very good ability of reasoning but without providing sufficient knowledge and experience then they are unable to solve the problem very well.

AI will give some methods to provide computer with two basic parts so that the computer can be intelligent machine and should act like humans. Two basic parts necessary for the application of artificial intelligence:
1. Knowledge base is contains the facts, theories and relationships with one another.
2. Inference engine is the ability to conclusions based on knowledge

Figure 1.