Artificial Intelligence Programming – A Simple Guide

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, I’m sure that the man never thought about making artificial intelligence a reality. In fact, the dream of artificial intelligence started to materialize about a few decades ago, thanks to the commitment of a few scientists in the area of AI (Artificial intelligence). They developed advanced concepts to look at artificial intelligence a brand new way while introducing new languages and 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 thought as one of the research domains and only the scientists were involved in it. But later, when AI was started to become popular among the other domains such as finance, weather, networking etc., the need for regular programmers to do artificial intelligence programming was became a necessity.

The tools and programming languages in artificial intelligence programming

Lisp programming language

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. The core of the programming paradigm was switched from mathematical functions to logic programming with predicate calculus.

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

Meta-Language

Meta-Language (ML) is a static scoped artificial programming language. It behaves same as Lisp, but the syntax is completely different. The phrase structure of ML is more related to Pascal programming language which is used for regular functional programming.

HASKEEL

This artificial intelligence programming language is similar to ML in terms of syntax, but differs in the structure. HASKEEL is a pure functional programming language where it does not have ant variable declaration or assignment statements.

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. Up to now, Prolog is considered as the most influential and widely used artificial programming language in use.