Artificial intelligence, for many, sounds an alien or ultra high-tech concept, when the truth is that it not anymore so. There is already so much of AI in daily life, just that most of us do not realise that.
In the words of Prof Raj Reddy, one of the early pioneers of AI and the founding director of the Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University, AI was actually an attempt in the early ’50s to ‘automate tasks usually thought to be uniquely human’. Though the progress made in the last 50-odd years is ‘probably automation of just one per cent of what humans can do’, we are still on the verge of a revolution, he says.
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