Introduction to AI

The simplest definition of AI is robots acting like humans. It is the intelligence demonstrated by machines. And this is where the discussion around the definition of intelligence comes in: how can we define it for machines, and at what level should we shout out loud that we are dealing with an intelligent machine?

If you are not familiar with the different tests we can use to verify the intelligence of a machine, one of the popular ways to do so is the Turing test. The idea is to have an interrogator asking questions to two people, one of them being a machine and the other a human. If the interrogator can’t make a clear distinction between those two, the machine should be considered intelligent.

Note

The Turing test is named after Alan Turing. The test was introduced in his paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in 1950. He proposed using the imitation game to determine whether a machine thinks like a human.

The people being interrogated...