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Artificial Intelligence – Source of Inspiration or a Problem?
Summary
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper reviews the history and challenges of defining artificial intelligence as a field of computer science.
Abstract Most of the electronics used today have, to a greater or lesser extent, artificial intelligence, reducing or eliminating the need for human involvement in certain tasks. Many people have tried to answer the question: what is artificial intelligence? The difficulties of finding a definition for this term are (mainly) twofold: first, that one does not really know what natural intelligence is; then, that those who try to formulate a definition are complexed by the achievements - far from justifying such a pompous name - of this field of computer science. Although it appeared more than half a century ago as an academic discipline, artificial intelligence (AI) has seen an unprecedented development in the last few years. The increase in computing power of computers and the accumulation of huge amounts of data have allowed the ever-faster progress of automatic learning and determined its penetration into different fields, from economics and medicine to business and everyday life.
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