ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT
This topic was the very interesting topic as far it was giving the very important concepts about the simulation of the human behavior. Edward coelestin and Dastan Kamuzola presented the topic. Artificial intelligent is the phenomena, which imitate the human behaviors. The presentation focuses how some mechanical devices actually are demonstrated to behave with some degree of intelligence like human being.
The artificial intelligent history goes as far as the ancient Greek mythology(from 5th-20th century). In 1950 AM Turing introduced the Turing test as a way of operationalizing a test of intelligent behavior. The modern history e.g. Nomad robot explores remote regions of Antarctica looking for meteorite samples and brought the good report. Now Artificial intelligent is the capability of a device to perform functions that are normally associated with human intelligent e.g. reasoning, thinking, interpreting etc. while robotics is the science of robots and their design, manufacture and applications.
Artificial Intelligence is characterized with the following, namely:-
1 Reasoning depends on logic criteria inserted by the programmer otherwise the robot does not reason as people do (e.g. Voice recognition)
2 Multi-agent Planning can perform different tasks at once
3 Communication ability by artificial intelligent can communicate according to the information given.
4 Identification can be (e.g. Finger print & The Nomad robot explores.)
5 Manipulation of object
6 Interpretation
Examples of artificial intelligent
1 Machine translator
2 Location detection e.g. tags
3 Automatic essay assessment
4 Electronic sensor e.g. weapons, drugs etc
5 Black box in an airplane
6 Robots

AI can be applied in some areas like
Supermaket
Scientific experimentation
In sport and games
Domestic Activites
Location detection
Security affairs


Some of advantagies of AI are:
Simplify work
It is efficiency and accuracy
It reduces misleneous ambiquity e.g. (finger print)
It enhance good communication( natural language understanding & translation)

When expecting good, bad also comes.
Some disadvantages of AI are:
Initial cost is high or expensive
It requires highly skilled expert
It led into loss of job
Difficult to implement esp. in some third world countries

After modern computers be available, followed by 2ndWorld War , it has become possible to create programs that perform difficult intellectual tasks and tools are constructed which have applications in a wide variety of everyday problems


Reference:
Feigenbaum, E.A. & Feldman, J. (eds.) Computers and Thought. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1963.
Gardner, Martin. Logic Machines & Diagrams. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
McCorduck, Pamela. Machines Who Think. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979