What is artificial intelligence programming?

We first heard about artificial intelligence a few decades ago. First, it was just a concept presented in science fictions. At that point of time of the history, humans never thought that the dream of ‘artificial intelligence’ would come true. A few decades ago, the dream of artificial  intelligence started to materialize as more and more scientists began to get in to the world of AI. Although the initial idea about AI was something similar to creating positron brains and hardware dependent artificial intelligence, a few scientists chanced the way to look at AI by shifting hardware based focus to software. In this process, they introduced a few tools for artificial intelligence programming.

At the initial stages, the scientists were not keen on developing software programming languages that were easy to use for the average programmers as AI was considered as one of the research areas and only the scientists were involved in it. But later, when AI was started to become popular among the other areas such as finance, weather, networking etc., the need for average programmers to do artificial intelligence programming was became a requirement.

The languages used for artificial intelligence programming

Lisp

This is one of the most famous artificial intelligence programming languages introduced to the world of AI. First introduced by John McCarthy in 1950s, Lisp is been used up to today as it is adoptable for the AI problems that are encountered in this era. Lisp is based on mathematical function theory and lambda abstraction.

After Lisp era, which was up to mid 1970s, the artificial intelligence programming paradigm was changed. In this paradigm change, the core of the concepts was changed from mathematical functions to logic programming.

Lisp has been widely used in the AI fields of natural language understanding, machine learning, genetic programming, information extraction, and AI planning.

Meta-Language programming language

Meta-Language (ML) is a static scoped artificial intelligence programming language. Although it behaves as Lisp in functional perspective, the phrase structure and program structure is entirely different. The syntax of ML is more related to Pascal programming language which is used for regular functional programming.

AI Programming with HASKEEL

HASKEEL was another variation of ML with again a completely different in phrase structure and structure. HASKEEL is a pure functional programming language where it does not have ant variable declaration or assignment statements.

Programming in Logic – Prolog

In 1970s, the artificial intelligence programming paradigm was change from functional to logical. Prolog was the first brain child of logical artificial intelligence programming. Even today, Prolog is used for various AI projects around the world and it is one of the most influential artificial intelligence programming languages.

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