Applicability of Artificial Intelligence in Different Fields of Life

The main purpose of this paper is to highlight the features of Artificial Intelligence (AI), how it was developed, and some of its main applications. John McCarthy, one of the founders of artificial intelligence research, once defined the field as ?getting a computer to do things which, when done by people, are said to involve intelligence.? The point of the definition was that he felt perfectly comfortable about carrying on his research without first having to defend any particular philosophical view of what the word ?intelligence? means. The beginnings of artificial intelligence are traced to philosophy, fiction, and imagination. Early inventions in electronics, engineering, and many other disciplines have influenced AI. Some early milestones include work in problems solving which included basic work in learning, knowledge representation, and inference as well as demonstration programs in language understanding, translation, theorem proving, associative memory, and knowledge-based systems.