Artificial Intelligence, is it truly what it means? 🙄
My sister was back in town for the weekend and decided to ask me about this buzzword she’s hearing more and more often. After starting explaining what was Artificial Intelligence (AI) I understood that even I did not have a clear and simple definition. Therefore, I decided to write about it in a clear and simple manner so that she and others who work in unrelated areas can make sense of what AI is and what is used for.
First thing, memorize this, Artificial Intelligence is the Father or Mother (as you prefer) of all branches you will listen in the future such as Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), etc. This important mainly when it comes to ML, since most times people tend to confuse both terms. AI is a broad branch of Computer Science.
Like a great number of things in the world, the new and cool is in fact old… It all started back in the 1950s, when Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, known as the fathers of the field, coined the term to refer to the heady aspiration of realizing in software and hardware an entity possessing human-level intelligence.
“Any task performed by a…
