Artificial Intelligence

Allen Newell and Herbert Simon are the first two people who started researching about Artificial Intelligence (AI) since 1950s. But when talking about Artificial Intelligence, some people may ask what is it? Even though most of us might have watched some AI movies such as I Robot or Terminator, but the terminology of AI is still new to some of us. Nowadays, there are more advancement in computer technology that computer scientists could actually create a few amazing tools such as robotic surgical system, da Vinci, made by the Intuitive Surgical and self-driving car made by Google. Lisp and Prolog were used mainly for AI technology in the beginning, but later these two programming languages were using for other purposes as well.

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Da Vinci uses the latest in surgical and robotic technologies available today. The da Vinci robots operate in hospitals worldwide, most commonly for kidney, hysterectomies and prostate removals. The da Vinci surgical system requires a human operator, which most likely is the surgeon. It enables surgeons to perform complex and delicate operations. There are a few key components such as an ergonomically console where the surgeon sits while operating, a high-definition 3D vision system that the surgeon looks through two eye holes of the procedure, a four interactive arms with foot pedals. There are two hand controllers that the surgeon uses while operating. 

Surgeon arms

Surgeon view

The self-driving cars were made recently, but I see them very often on my ways to work and home on high way 280, though. However, there was always a driver behind the wheel, and I have never seen one that driving without the driver. Hope, I can see it someday.

The future self-driving cars

Both da Vinci system and self-driving car came out for a while, but these two new technology are still new to people. Most of us still somewhat are not used to them yet and afraid to take the risk for using them.