What is Artificial Intelligence ?

Imagine you have a smart home. You wake up in the morning and your virtual assistant realizes that. Pulls the curtains on the window for you, gives you an update on the weather outside and all the things you have to do on that particular day.

You enter a room and the lights and the ac are turned on automatically! Every little electronic device is connected to run on their own. This is the doing of Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is a branch of Computer Science dedicated to creating intelligent machines that work and react like humans.

Some of the important features of Artificial intelligence are:

Speech recognition
Object detection
Solving problems and learning from a given set of dataset
Plan an approach for future tasks to be performed
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There are 4 distinct types of Artificial Intelligence and they are:

Purely Reactive - Reacts based on its surrounding environment and does not need any previous data.
Limited Memory - Makes use of current and previous data to complete a given task.
Theory of Mind - Has the ability to understand human emotions and socialize.
Self Aware - It is the future generation of Machines. They will be super intelligent, sentient and conscious
Artificial Intelligence can be achieved in two ways through:

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Machine Learning provides Artificial Intelligence with the ability to learn and adapt and solve problems on its own based on some algorithms.

Deep Learning makes it possible for Artificial Intelligence to function like a human, and probably even a more intelligent version of a human. It imitates the functioning of a human brain to make decisions and complete a task.