ABSTRACT
Artificial intelligence, the effort to create programs that can operate intelligently and autonomously, has been part of research in automatic computation since its inception. To researchers in artificial intelligence, the human brain is another embodiment of a Turing machine. Human cognitive processes and problem-solving strategies are usually the points of departure in artificial intelligence programs. Research in artificial intelligence has relied on special programming languages that manipulate words, lists, and relationships rather than numbers. The initial phase in artificial intelligence research explored the information processing and problem-solving model of intelligence. In selecting by heuristic procedure the likely path toward a solution, General Problem Solver attempts to solve one of the central problems of artificial intelligence—the combinatorial explosion. To advocates of artificial intelligence, creating an intelligent machine is mainly a practical problem, not a philosophical one. The advocates of artificial intelligence share a vision of intelligent and autonomous computers and robots.
