The field itself is an emerging area of computer sciences and a lot of work is underway in order to mature the concepts of this field. At this level we will however try to envelop some important aspects and basic concepts which will help the reader to get an insight into the type of topics that Artificial Intelligence deals with. We have used the name of the field i.e. Artificial Intelligence (commonly referred as AI) without any explanation of the name itself. Let us now look into a simple but comprehensive way to define the field. To define AI, let us first try to understand that what is Intelligence?
If you were asked a simple question; how can we define Intelligence? many of you would exactly know what it is but most of you won’t exactly be able to define it. Is it something tangible? We all know that it does exist but what actually it is. Some of us will attribute intelligence to living beings and would be of the view that all living species are intelligent. But how about these plants and tress, they are living species but are they also intelligent? So can we say that Intelligence is a trait of some living species. All of you have experienced your college life. It was very easy for us to look at the timetable and go to the respective classes to attend them. Not even caring that how that time table was actually developed. In simple cases developing such a timetable is simple. But in cases where we have 100s of students studying in different classes, where we have only a few rooms and limited time to schedule all those classes. This gets tougher and tougher. The person who makes the timetable has to look into all the time schedule, availability of the teachers, availability of the rooms, and many other things to fit all the items correctly within a fixed span of time. He has to look into many expressions and thoughts like “If room A is free AND teacher B is ready to take the class AND the students of the class are not studying any other course at that time” THEN “the class can be scheduled”. This is a fairly simple one, things get complex as we add more and more parameters e.g. if we were to consider that teacher B might teach more than one course and he might just prefer to teach in room C and many other things like that. The problem gets more and more complex. We are pretty much sure than none of us had ever realized the complexity through which our teachers go through while developing these schedules for our classes. However, like we know such time tables can be developed. All this information has to reside in the developer’s brain. His intelligence helps him to create such a schedule. Hence the ability to think, plan and schedule demonstrate intelligence.
| Name | Major | Roll Number |
|---|---|---|
| Nabeel | CS | 44 |
| Hassan | CS | 45 |
