History of AI

Artificial Intelligence can be traced back to so many routes, with different arguments to where it actually originated. Greek mythology has always been credited for its origin. Some believe it originated from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Doctor Victor Frankenstein created a Monster using different raw materials that he intended to look and behave like a human (with sensitive emotions).

Some also believe it was thought of from Czech author Karel Capek’s Play; Rossum’s Universal Robots (RUR). The play focused on a Robot rising up and wiping out mankind.

Alan Turing, a British man considered as the father of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence. He was a brilliant mathematician and code-breaker, he was able to use machines to break codes of enemies during the Second World War giving the British huge advantages. He was responsible for the Turing machine which was able to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm. The Turing Test he invented was to test for a machine’s artificial consciousness.

In 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference (in Dartmouth College, USA), the organizers were determined to prove that intelligence can be simulated by a machine. Great advances were made in Artificial Intelligence after that and Military research bodies helped fund a lot of their work.

Before, AI was very scarce in the world but now it has spread across in various forms. There are a lot of devices that have been termed “Smart Devices” (phones, Televisions, homes, cars etc) that have some form of AI functions on them which have made tasks much easier.