Artificial intelligence (AI) aims to create machines that can perform tasks requiring human intelligence like reasoning, learning, perception and decision making. The history of AI began with ancient myths and philosophers exploring human thinking, with pioneers in the 1940s creating programmable computers. Current AI has achieved successes using new methods, powerful hardware and large datasets, though challenges remain. The future implications of AI include the potential emergence of general artificial intelligence, convergence with other technologies, and both opportunities for enhancing humanity as well as risks of human-AI conflict that require wisdom and responsibility to manage.
2. Introduction
Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short. AI is the field of computer science that aims to
create machines and systems that can perform tasks that normally require human
intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, perception, decision making, and self-
correction
4. Overview of the history of AI
Ancient myths and legends
Philosophers tried to explain how human thinking works
Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener and others
Programmable digital computer in the 1940s
Artificial intelligence coined by John McCarthy
AI winters and summers
8. Is potential future implications
for society and humanity
Emergence of artificial general intelligence
Convergence of AI with other technologies
Enhancement of human intelligence with AI implants
Coexistence or conflict of human and artificial intelligence