Artificial Intelligence: It's Alive!

Have you ever owned a stuffed animal or anything related? Have you ever wanted it be alive? I know I have. It is probably not possible to have a stuffed animal become alive after a wish like in the movie Ted and it is probably not possible to resurrect the dead using power electrical shocks like in Frankenstein; if it actually were, then someone would have probably done it by now. There are, however, artificial substances and life that scientists and engineers have made. Robots have been built and have had the ability to communicate; Siri, a personal assistant and knowledge navigator application from Apple, is very similar to this idea. This concept is called artificial intelligence, also known as AI, is defined as "the study and design of intelligent agents." It is a branch of computer science that studies and develops intelligent machines and software.

A well-known example of artificial intelligence is the general idea of a robot. The almost perfect artificial intelligent robot would have a well-created human thought process; basically, a machine with the intellectual abilities of a human. Like humans, it would have the ability to learn, to reason, to speak, and to think. The closest thing created around this idea is Kitano's PINO, also known as the humanoid robot. It has taught itself how to walk! Isn't that cool?

Now this wasn't easy to achieve. Computers have the ability to solve problems, but it can only solve problems it was programmed to solve. It doesn't have any analytical ability like the chess computer. AI robots would have to gather input, store its data, and run different possible actions and predict the best outcome for the situation.

The field of artificial intelligence is amazing. The feeling of making something behave like a human is unreal, as if it can only happen in movies. After this, maybe we can make Ted real and resurrect Frankenstein!