HTML tutorial
CSS3 tutorial
Bootstrap tutorial
JavaScript tutorial
JQuery tutorial
AngularJS tutorial
React tutorial
NodeJS tutorial
PHP tutorial
Python tutorial
Python3 tutorial
Django tutorial
Linux tutorial
Docker tutorial
Ruby tutorial
Java tutorial
C tutorial
C ++ tutorial
Perl tutorial
JSP tutorial
Lua tutorial
Scala tutorial
Go tutorial
ASP.NET tutorial
C # tutorial
About 70 000 years ago, something happened to the human brain
Using words, was a big step in the development of human intelligence:
"Elephant" is more informative than "Big Animal".
Understanding numbers, was also a big step:
"5" or "50" is more informative than "few" or "many".
"There is a lion behind the big oak" is more informative than shouting "Danger!".
Having a language is probably a key characteristic that distinguishes us from animals.
Abstract thinking is thinking about things that are not concrete, like freedom, or ideas, or concepts.
A figure of freedom
Freedom
The Past
The Future
Imagination
Explanation
A figure of cement
My Mouth
My Fingertip
One Apple
Two Chicken
Three Horses
Many everyday behaviors use abstract thinking:
There is no proven definition of Intelligence.
Intelligence can be defined as:
Intelligence can be defined as a collection of knowledge:
"Intelligence could be defined as the process of obtaining knowledge by efficient means."
Yampolsky (2013)
The challenge of AI is to understand what intelligence is, and how intelligence works.
What is the difference between human knowledge and artificial intelligence?
Intelligence might be a type of algorithms in our brains or in our genes.
Later in this tutorial you will learn more about intelligent algorithms.
Can animals, birds, insects, or plants think?
Humans have bigger brains than animals.
Big dogs have bigger brains than small dogs. Are big dogs smarter?
Birds have very small brains, but they know they should not make children in the autumn, and they know when to fly to the south.
Bees have even smaller brains, but they know how to communicate about where to find nectar.
Plants have no brain, but they know how to reproduce, and how to prepare for the winter.