What is artificial intelligence?

            Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, is the science that makes machines capable of making decisions and acting intelligently by simulating humans and their way of thinking. We humans obtain information from the outside world, process it in our minds, and issue judgments and conclusions based on it and our previous experiences.

       You can liken the process of artificial intelligence and machine learning to a newborn baby who cannot learn or do anything on his own unless his parents teach him, train him, transfer knowledge to him and enable him to recognize what is wrong and what is right, and thus the machine learns and becomes able to make decisions, give conclusions and suggest solutions.

          We know that machines are just programmable hardware, but in the era of artificial intelligence, they have become programmable in a way that enables them to issue judgments and decisions similar to humans by following a specific method of programming called Machine Learning, which is a term associated with artificial intelligence that enables machines to learn from piles of data by applying algorithms, models, and pre-built patterns that we give them with the data, so that they can deduce information from it without being explicitly programmed and taught, and thus machines learn and become more intelligent. 

        A simple example of the above is teaching a young child the types of animals. We tell him that a bird flies and has two wings, and this is the governing model. Thus, the child can apply this model to classify birds from other types of animals, no matter how many different types and shapes we give him. This is exactly what we do with machines, in short and simplified.