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Artificial Intelligence
Summary: Discusses artificial intelligence and the effort to make computers become more and more human. Questions if computers will ever become as intelligent as human beings.
Computers are becoming more and more human. In some areas they are superhuman. Computers can calculate complex math problems in less than one millisecond, beat us at games such as chess, memorize entire books and movies in a single glance, compose entire pieces of music, and they can give people information on virtually any subject. Yet, we still don't have a machine that can do the things that computers have done in science fiction movies, such as translate everyday English into Italian, summarize texts, or make us breakfast without burning down the house. But will computers ever become as intelligent as human beings"
According to the website Science Fiction and Fantasy World, artificial intelligence (A.I.) can be defined as "the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems." (Moy, par. 2) This domain has predominantly been a field characterized by complex research in laboratory scale environments...
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