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Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that deals with machine intelligence. Its goal is to empower machines with the ability to perform routine human tasks - like seeing, listening, learning and even thinking. But Artificial Intelligence is a very misunderstood term, even in the computer world. People think "intelligent" machines will one day rule the world, and we will all be reduced to slaves. This is not necessarily the case. Let's take a look at the field of Artificial Intelligence closely, to understand what it really is. Artificial intelligence has been the biggest setback of the computer world. It was widely believed in the early 1970's that by the turn of the century, we will have human-like machines, capable of making intelligent decisions and also feeling human emotions. Science fiction writers came up with all kinds of machines like "The Terminator", which led people to believe that such...

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