Live Magazine September 2014 Volume 9/2014 | Page 110

ARTIFICIAL IN
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial intelligence, the human like
intelligence of machines, is what
keeps our phones running and our
games exciting. It is defined as the
theory and development of computer
systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence,
such as visual perception, speech
recognition, decision-making and
translation between languages.
Surprisingly the concept of artificial
intelligence has been around since
ancient history. It is a part of the
Greek mythology of intelligent beings, or as we know them robots,
such as Talos, guardian of Crete the
bronze robot believed to be gifted by
Hephaetus to Minos. Interestingly
this links in with the ever popular
game, Skyrim, were Talos is a con-

it is a part of our games. Skyrim is
not the only game that has or incorporates AI; there is Halo, which has
Cortana an intelligent artificial character, and of course perhaps the
most obvious one ‘The Sims’. The
Sims has you controlling a family
or person of your creation however
whilst they must follow your commands they can with free will enabled go about their lives without you.
Movies have been incorporating the
idea of intelligent machines since
as far back as the ‘W