Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the idea of making machines smart like humans. It started way back with ancient myths, but the modern field began in the 1950s. Early AI focused on problem-solving and logic.
Progress wasn't always smooth, with periods called "AI winters" where funding and interest dropped. However, research continued, leading to breakthroughs in areas like machine learning.
In recent years, with more powerful computers and vast amounts of data, AI has seen huge advancements, especially in "deep learning." This has led to impressive applications like voice assistants, self-driving cars, and AI that can create text and images, making AI a big part of our world today.
George Boole's work on Boolean algebra is fundamentally based on a binary system. While he wasn't the inventor of binary numbers themselves, his algebraic system for logic used two primary values, typically representing true and false. These two values directly correspond to the 0 and 1 of the binary number system. Boole demonstrated how logical operations could be performed using these two states, laying the mathematical groundwork that later became essential for the design and operation of digital computers which process information using binary digits.
