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WHAT IS AI?

From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons.

WHY PYTHON FOR AI?

Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task. For many years, we used Lisp, because it handled lists and trees really well, had garbage collection, and didn’t require type declarations. Lisp and its variants finally went out of vogue, and for a while, we allowed any old language, usually Java or C++. This did not work well. The programs were big and more difficult to write. A few years ago, the AI faculty started converting to Python. It has the object-oriented capabilities of Java and C++ with the simplicity for working with list and tree structures that Lisp had with a pretty nice, easy-to- use syntax.

" - Chathumina Vimukthi"
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