There are lots of questions that the modern computing instruments have been used to answer. Majority of the questions are reduced into problems and the resulting solutions are used to inform the answers. Problem-solving process that can be rendered into signs and symbols are further reduced into computing processes and systems. This way a more efficient rendering of aspects of question-answering processes are automated through modern computing technology. Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a subfield of Computing in which the possibility of creating machines that can directly answer the questions is the subject-matter of interest. However, a number of questions arises that are fundamental to the enterprise of AI. These include, but not limited to: Can we make the machine (computer) to think like humans? What is intelligence? How can we make intelligence to manifest in a
machine (computer)? Will such machine be conscious? Indeed, these are questions remain topic of rigorous debate in various field including: Philosophy, Psychology, Computing and Artificial Intelligent.
Topics on the subject-matter of AI are profound and interesting to a wide audience.
We will be discussing a number of the challenging topics relating to intelligence and consider perhaps whether and how we can craft out machines to mimic it.
- Teacher: Odetunji Ajadi ODEJOBI