AI: “Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.”
- Definition from Wikipedia
Having a robot or virtual agent (an example of a virtual agent could be characters in a video game) navigate a space or obstacle course can be a difficult task to plan out
How is it that computers can be so highly functional across countless deterministic tasks yet have difficulty performing functions a child could easily do? If a child is given a a collection of photographs which contain the same dog, they would have no problem pointing out this fact. A camera communicating with an interpreting program, however, is bounded by information represented by the pixels. Algorithms can be written to try to find large scale changes across a screen of pixels, such as a “blob” being inside of the image, but determining if there is a dog is nearly impossible.