Introduction to computational methods
Hanuman Verma, Akshansh Gupta, Jyoti Singh Kirar, Mukesh Prasad, Chin‐Teng Lin · 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term used commonly in the current era. Here the term intelligence has a history way back a million year. Since the beginning of the life of Homo sapiens on earth, we are learning step by step with our experience to get a better solution in search of ease of human civilization till today. Intelligence is the ability to perceive or deduce information and retaining it to be applied toward adaptive behaviors within an environment. Intelligence is defined in many ways, such as logic, learning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, reasoning, emotional knowledge, problem-solving, and perception. AI, on the other hand, is a wisdom that exhibited by computers or other machines compared to natural intelligence shown by humans or animals. The field of AI is building intelligent entities that can compute how to act effectively and safely in varying situations. AI has focused mainly on the following components of intelligence: learning, reasoning, problem-solving, and perception.