Autonomous (driverless) cars, customer support chatbots, Alexa and Netflix suggestions are a few examples of AI that have already changed our lives.
AI of course stands for Artificial Intelligence! But what does it really mean? To understand this, we should start with a simpler question: “What is an algorithm?”
The first algorithm is dated back to 2500 BC to the ancient Babylonian mathematicians, thus moving on to the Egyptians, Greeks, and Arabs. It is about taking an input, applying a set of rules, and generating an output.
Let’s have a look at a simple example of an algorithm: