Artificial Intelligence and Decline of Critical Thinking

Artificial intelligence is not a fortuitous invention. The quest for machines that can aid humans in performing calculations dates back to more than 2000 years ago. From the invention of abacus to slide rule, humans have always yearned for contraptions that can make calculations easy. Ease of performing calculations motivated Charles…

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Musings on Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence is the study and creation of artificial intelligent agents. To ameliorate the seeming tautology in the definition, it is important to state the characteristics of intelligent agents. An agent is anything that performs an action in an environment. Human beings, dogs, robots and self-driving cars are some examples of…

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