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The invention of the electronic computer in 1941 served as a promise to scientists who, inspired by ancient myths about intelligent machines, hoped to invent an electronic brain, simulating one of the most distinctive characteristics of humans intelligence and ability to think. Today the discipline of artificial intelligence is closer than ever to its aim creation of systems that could be able to function as intellectual agents. Find out more about the futuristic science, its main fields of study and history of development in this book.

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