AI Notes
AI Notes
AI Notes
Since the invention of computers or machines, their capability to perform various tasks went
on growing exponentially. Humans have developed the power of computer systems in terms
of their diverse working domains, their increasing speed, and reducing size with respect to
time.
A branch of Computer Science named Artificial Intelligence pursues creating the computers
or machines as intelligent as human beings.
Philosophy of AI
While exploiting the power of the computer systems, the curiosity of human, lead him to
wonder, “Can a machine think and behave like humans do?”
Philosophical AI is AI, not philosophy; but it’s AI rooted in and flowing from, philosophy.
Thus, the development of AI started with the intention of creating similar intelligence in
machines that we find and regard high in humans.
The philosophy of artificial intelligence is a branch of the philosophy of technology that
explores artificial intelligence and its implications for knowledge and understanding of
intelligence, ethics, consciousness, epistemology, and free will. Furthermore, the technology
is concerned with the creation of artificial animals or artificial people (or, at least, artificial
creatures; see artificial life) so the discipline is of considerable interest to philosophers.
These factors contributed to the emergence of the philosophy of artificial intelligence. Some
scholars argue that the AI community's dismissal of philosophy is detrimental.
The philosophy of artificial intelligence attempts to answer such questions as follows:
● Can a machine act intelligently? Can it solve any problem that a person would solve
by thinking?
● Are human intelligence and machine intelligence the same? Is the human brain
essentially a computer?
● Can a machine have a mind, mental states, and consciousness in the same sense
that a human being can? Can it feel how things are?
Questions like these reflect the divergent interests of AI researchers, cognitive scientists and
philosophers respectively. The scientific answers to these questions depend on the definition of
"intelligence" and "consciousness" and exactly which "machines" are under discussion.
Goals of AI
● To Create Expert Systems − The systems which exhibit intelligent behavior,
learn, demonstrate, explain, and advice its users.
● To Implement Human Intelligence in Machines − Creating systems that
understand, think, learn, and behave like humans.
Programming Without and With AI
The programming without and with AI is different in following ways −
What is AI Technique?
In the real world, the knowledge has some unwelcomed properties −
● Its volume is huge, next to unimaginable.
● It is not well-organized or well-formatted.
● It keeps changing constantly.
AI Technique is a manner to organize and use the knowledge efficiently in such a way that −
● It should be perceivable by the people who provide it.
● It should be easily modifiable to correct errors.
● It should be useful in many situations though it is incomplete or
inaccurate.
AI techniques elevate the speed of execution of the complex program it is equipped with.
Applications of AI
AI has been dominant in various fields such as −
● Gaming − AI plays crucial role in strategic games such as chess, poker,
tic-tac-toe, etc., where machine can think of large number of possible positions
based on heuristic knowledge.
● Natural Language Processing − It is possible to interact with the computer
that understands natural language spoken by humans.
● Expert Systems − There are some applications which integrate machine,
software, and special information to impart reasoning and advising. They
provide explanation and advice to the users.
● Vision Systems − These systems understand, interpret, and comprehend visual
input on the computer. For example,
o A spying aeroplane takes photographs, which are used to figure
out spatial information or map of the areas.
o Doctors use clinical expert system to diagnose the patient.
o Police use computer software that can recognize the face of
criminal with the stored portrait made by forensic artist.
● Speech Recognition − Some intelligent systems are capable of hearing and
comprehending the language in terms of sentences and their meanings while a
human talks to it. It can handle different accents, slang words, noise in the
background, change in human’s noise due to cold, etc.
● Handwriting Recognition − The handwriting recognition software reads the
text written on paper by a pen or on screen by a stylus. It can recognize the
shapes of the letters and convert it into editable text.
● Intelligent Robots − Robots are able to perform the tasks given by a human.
They have sensors to detect physical data from the real world such as light,
heat, temperature, movement, sound, bump, and pressure. They have efficient
processors, multiple sensors and huge memory, to exhibit intelligence. In
addition, they are capable of learning from their mistakes and they can adapt to
the new environment.
History of AI
Here is the history of AI during 20th century −
1945 Isaac Asimov, a Columbia University alumni, coined the term Robotics.
1985 Harold Cohen created and demonstrated the drawing program, Aaron.
The Deep Blue Chess Program beats the then world chess champion,
1997
Garry Kasparov.
● What is Intelligence?
The ability of a system to calculate, reason, perceive relationships and analogies, learn from
experience, store and retrieve information from memory, solve problems, comprehend
complex ideas, use natural language fluently, classify, generalize, and adapt new situations.
● Types of Intelligence
As described by Howard Gardner, an American developmental psychologist, the Intelligence
comes in multifold −
You can say a machine or a system is artificially intelligent when it is equipped with at least
one and at most all intelligences in it.
AI is an advancement
On the other hand,
made by human insights;
human creatures are
its early improvement is
1. Emergence made with the intrinsic
credited to Norbert Weiner
capacity to think,
who theorized on criticism
reason, review, etc.
mechanisms.
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The domain of artificial intelligence is huge in breadth and width. While proceeding, we
consider the broadly common and prospering research areas in the domain of AI −
● Speech and Voice Recognition
These both terms are common in robotics, expert systems and natural language processing.
Though these terms are used interchangeably, their objectives are different.
1 Expert
Systems
Examples −
Flight-tracki
ng systems,
Clinical
systems.
2 Natural
Language
Processing
Examples:
Google
Now
feature,
speech
recognition,
Automatic
voice
output.
3 Neural
Networks
Examples −
Pattern
recognition
systems
such as face
recognition,
character
recognition,
handwriting
recognition.
4 Robotics
Examples −
Industrial
robots for
moving,
spraying,
painting,
precision
checking,
drilling,
cleaning,
coating,
carving, etc.
5 Fuzzy
Logic
Systems
Examples −
Consumer
electronics,
automobiles
, etc.
● Task Classification of AI
The domain of AI is classified into Formal tasks, Mundane tasks, and Expert tasks.
Planing Creativity
Robotics ●
● Locomotive
Humans learn mundane (ordinary) tasks since their birth. They learn by perception,
speaking, using language, and locomotives. They learn Formal Tasks and Expert Tasks later,
in that order.
For humans, the mundane tasks are easiest to learn. The same was considered true before
trying to implement mundane tasks in machines. Earlier, all work of AI was concentrated in
the mundane task domain.
Later, it turned out that the machine requires more knowledge, complex knowledge
representation, and complicated algorithms for handling mundane tasks. This is the
reason why AI work is more prospering in the Expert Tasks domain now, as the expert
task domain needs expert knowledge without common sense, which can be easier to represent
and handle.
In earlier days, robotic applications were very limited, but now they have
become smarter and more efficient by combining with Artificial
Intelligence. AI has played a crucial role in the industrial sector by
replacing humans in terms of productivity and quality. In this article,
'Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, we will discuss Robots & Artificial
Intelligence and their various applications, advantages, differences, etc.
Let's start with the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robots.
● What is a robot?
A robot is a machine that looks like a human, and is capable of performing out of box
actions and replicating certain human movements automatically by means of
commands given to it using programming. Examples: Drug Compounding
Robot, Automotive Industry Robots, Order Picking Robots, Industrial Floor
Scrubbers and Sage Automation Gantry Robots, etc.
Components of Robot
o Actuators: Actuators are the devices that are responsible for moving
and controlling a system or machine. It helps to achieve physical
movements by converting energy like electrical, hydraulic and air,
etc. Actuators can create linear as well as rotary motion.
o Power Supply: It is an electrical device that supplies electrical power
to an electrical load. The primary function of the power supply is to
convert electrical current to power the load.
o Electric Motors: These are the devices that convert electrical energy
into mechanical energy and are required for the rotational motion of
the machines.
o Pneumatic Air Muscles: Air Muscles are soft pneumatic devices that are
ideally best fitted for robotics. They can contract and extend and
operate by pressurized air filling a pneumatic bladder. Whenever air
is introduced, it can contract up to 40%.
o Muscles wire: These are made up of nickel-titanium alloy called Nitinol
and are very thin in shape. It can also extend and contract when a
specific amount of heat and electric current is supplied into it. Also,
it can be formed and bent into different shapes when it is in its
martensitic form. They can contract by 5% when electrical current
passes through them.
o Piezo Motors and Ultrasonic Motors: Piezoelectric motors or Piezo motors
are the electrical devices that receive an electric signal and apply a
directional force to an opposing ceramic plate. It helps a robot to
move in the desired direction. These are the best suited electrical
motors for industrial robots.
o Sensor: They provide the ability like see, hear, touch and movement
like humans. Sensors are the devices or machines which help to
detect the events or changes in the environment and send data to
the computer processor. These devices are usually equipped with
other electronic devices. Similar to human organs, the electrical
sensor also plays a crucial role in Artificial Intelligence & robotics. AI
algorithms control robots by sensing the environment, and it
provides real-time information to computer processors.
Applications of Robotics
Computer Vision
Robots can also see, and this is possible by one of the popular Artificial
Intelligence technologies named Computer vision. Computer Vision plays a
crucial role in all industries like health, entertainment, medical, military,
mining, etc.
Edge Computing
This is the technique used to solve a problem with the help of another
problem that is already solved. In Transfer learning technique, knowledge
gained from solving one problem can be implement to solve related
problem. We can understand it with an example such as the model used
for identifying a circle shape can also be used to identify a square shape.
Transfer learning reuses the pre-trained model for a related problem, and
only the last layer of the model is trained, which is relatively less time
consuming and cheaper. In robotics, transfer learning can be used to train
one machine with the help of other machines.
Reinforcement Learning
Affective computing
Mixed Reality
AI algorithms are necessary when you want to allow the robot to perform
more complex tasks.
1. AI Programs
2. Robots
Inputs are given in the form of the analogue signal or in the form of the
speech waveform.
Also, to operate this, special hardware with sensors and effectors are
needed.