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    WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?

    Sep 03, 2020 3 minutes
    by PROF PETER J BENTLEY

    WHY IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SO POPULAR TODAY?

    rtificial intelligence (AI) has been around since the birth of computers in the 1950s. The original pioneers dreamed of making ‘computer brains’ that could perform the same kinds of tasks as our own brains, such as playing chess or translating languages. But hopes that AI would quickly reach human-level intelligence didn’t come to fruition, and AI soon fell out of favour. Over the following decades, technology improved at an exponential rate. Computers got

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