A machine, in simple terms, was conceived and devised by man as
a contraption to help ease his burden by doing a strenuous job
repeatedly at a faster pace. But recall the Hollywood blockbuster,
TERMINATOR – the filmmakers had shown machines as intelligent
beings that could act on their own, take decisions, create things
etc. Back in 1984, when the movie had released, the general
perception was that intelligence in machines was just wild
imaginations of dreamy filmmakers. But only three decades later,
intelligent machines are very much a part of our reality now.
Technological advancements in the field of machine learning have
made certain types of machines capable of learning, and performing
some tasks on their own. Artificial intelligence is no longer an
alien concept. The division of Science which deals with making
machines equipped with human-like intelligence to act in human-like
fashion and the exhibit human capabilities is known as Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
