Artificial Intelligence

What Artificial Intelligence looks like.

Today in computer science we were introduced to Artificial Intelligence. I learned that intelligence can come in many different shapes, sizes, and definitions. There are thing that we can do that we really take for granted. "Oh, you can walk. Well that's easy. That doesn't take brains." And in reality, yes. Robots are pretty dumb. They can only follow orders in a specific way too.

This graphic shows the many different intelligences there are. A robot may not necessarily be smart on its own, but it certainly can be programmed to be.


One of the most notable Chatbots is Watson. Yep, the machine that could play Jeopardy is in actuallity just a really complicated Chatbot. In class we learned how to program our own chatbot to simulate a typical conversation between two humans.


The first questions would ask your name and your favorite food to start the conversation. There was also a line that would detect if you didn't answer a question. After that a random choice would decide whether the AI like or disliked the food. Then it would tell you to ask a question. Using key words such as "love" or "hate" would trigger predefined lines. If neither is triggered, a random.choice would decide the final answer.

Of course things never went accordingly and broke.