Subject: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BT9402) (B1367) Please answer the following: Question # 1: What is the goal of artificial intelligence? Explain the importance of artificial intelligence in today's world. Answer: The fundamental goals of artificial intelligence are: understanding perceptual, reasoning, learning, linguistic and creative processes. The understanding will be helpful in creating new and informative smart tools for use across different industries and academic environments. Just as the invention of the internal combustion engine and the development of machines such as airplanes led to an unprecedented improvement in the mobility of our species, the tools resulting from artificial intelligence research are already beginning to extend intellectual and creative capabilities human in ways that our predecessors could only dream of. Evolutionary understanding of mechanisms extends the potential and limits of intelligence. The result of evolution is the development of computer systems capable of performing tasks identified as traits of intelligence. The importance of artificial intelligence in today's world: Artificial intelligence will affect the lives of most individuals in civilized countries. Countries leading in the development of artificial intelligence will then emerge as the world's dominant economic powers. With a total budget of around a billion dollars, the Japanese are determined to realize many of their goals, namely producing systems capable of conversing in natural language, understanding speech and visual scenes, learning and refining their knowledge, they make decisions and display other human traits. In the United States, first, in 1983 there was the formation of a consortium of private companies to develop advanced technologies applying artificial intelligence.... .. middle of the paper ...... can't find a match, then the predicate expression fails and the interpreter goes back to the previous one, until it finds a match. Whenever the Prolog interpreter cannot find another match for the leftmost expression in a query, the query cannot be satisfied; he types the word no and stops. Every time in backtracking it manages to find a new correspondence for some predicative expression, it starts moving from there again as it originally did. Important for backtracking in artificial intelligenceThe purpose of backtracking is to give "second chances" to a query by reviewing previous decisions. Backtracking is very important in AI, because many AI methods use intelligent guesses and follow intuitions to accomplish a task. Assumptions can lead to incorrect conclusions, so going back is a good way to recover.