Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks normally associated with intelligent beings. The term is often applied to the design of emerging systems that possess intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. Since the development of the digital computer in the 1940s, it has been demonstrated that computers can be programmed to perform very complex tasks, such as discovering proofs for mathematical theorems or playing chess with great skill. It's all artificial intelligence. The idea of artificial intelligence and research in this field - a scientific approach to the production of "intelligent machines" first appeared in a scientific circle founded in 1956 on the initiative of Professor John McCarthy of Stanford University (USA). it has been. This circle includes Marvin Minsky, professor emeritus of the Faculty of "Electronics and Computing Technology" of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), "universal problem solver" and "logical theorist" creator of intellectual (mental) programs - cybernetic Allen Newell and Carnegie-Mellen doctor ( (USA) famous psychologist Herbert Seyman, outstanding specialists in computing techniques Arthur Samuel, Oliver Selfridge, Manshanon and others. It was in this circle that the concept of "Artificial I ntelligence" appeared.
