Hello Aspirant,

Yes. Coding or programming is the basic skill required in computer science and technology fields . Artificial intelligence is basically  building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. So you as the AI engineer, designer and developer will be controlling that artificial intelligence, which is possible only by feeding in the instructions through machine language . ie., you will have to write algorithm. Hence you should have a strong knowledge in programming languages for coding the algorithm and testing its accuracy and efficiency.Java, Python, Lisp, Prolog, and C++ are major AI programming language used for artificial intelligence capable of satisfying different needs in the development and designing of different software.

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