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Chapter 24

Artificial Intelligence

Modern articial intelligence (AI), as it is known today, emerged with the

introduction of electronic computers (see Chapter 18) in the late 1940s

[1, 2, 14, 15]. ese machines were able to store and process informa-

tion at very high speeds. is enabled researchers to build models and

design solutions for complex problems in many problem domains, includ-

ing those simulating human intelligence and “smart” behavior. Since the

early years, progress in AI has been signicant. is is true particularly in

computer hardware, where the size and price of computers have shrunk

while the speed and reliability have increa ...