What is AI and Machine Learning

Machines in general are very quick in performing tasks. We can control these machines ie., we give instructions and make them do tasks for us which is what programming is all about. But Lower level tasks can best be left to computers while higher level tasks can be done with humans. For eg., if we tell a computer to identify a cat from other animals like dogs, can it be programmed ? Technically, we can say it has a fur, has whiskers, makes a 'mwewwwwwwwww' noise etc. Immediately the computer comes back and asks us "What is mwew....or what is whisker of fur ? Therefore it becomes really harder to explain to the machines what to do.

But, there is a new idea of machine learning that has many applications with it. There are self driving cars, robots, vision processing, language processing, recommendation engines, translation services, etc. The goal of machine learning is to make machines act more and more like humans. In other words, it is the task of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed

Artificial Intelligenge (AI) simply means human intelligence exhibited by machines and Machine Learning is the subset of AI. We have something called Narrow AI means it is really good in doing a particular task very well, better than humans unlike humans, who are good in handling multiple tasks which is called General AI and it will take the computers many more years to reach that level. For eg detecting human diseases, Chess named DeepBlue that defeated Kasprov, the world champion then. These computers can do single task really well.

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