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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast with the natural intelligence displayed by humans. AI textbooks define it as making intelligent machines and the study of intelligent agents that can be programmed to sense their environment and take actions to maximize their chances of success. While promising progress has been made, developing general human-level intelligence or "strong AI" remains an ongoing challenge. AI raises complex philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind.

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast with the natural intelligence displayed by humans. AI textbooks define it as making intelligent machines and the study of intelligent agents that can be programmed to sense their environment and take actions to maximize their chances of success. While promising progress has been made, developing general human-level intelligence or "strong AI" remains an ongoing challenge. AI raises complex philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind.

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Artificial intelligence

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "AI" redirects here. For other uses, see Ai. For other uses, see Artificial intelligence (disambiguation). Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents"[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success.[2] John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955,[3] defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."[4] AI research is highly technical and specialized, deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other.[5] Some of the division is due to social and cultural factors: subfields have grown up around particular institutions and the work of individual researchers. AI research is also divided by several technical issues. There are subfields which are focussed on the solution of specific problems, on one of several possible approaches, on the use of widely differing tools and towards the accomplishment of particular applications. The central problems of AI include such traits as reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects.[6] General intelligence (or "strong AI") is still among the field's long term goals.[7] Currently popular approaches include statistical methods, computational intelligence and traditional symbolic AI. There are an enormous number of tools used in AI, including versions of search and mathematical optimization, logic, methods based on probability and economics, and many others. The field was founded on the claim that a central property of humans, intelligencethe sapience of Homo sapienscan be so precisely described that it can be simulated by a machine.[8] This raises philosophical issues about the nature of the mind and the ethics of creating artificial beings, issues which have been addressed by myth, fiction and philosophy since antiquity.[9] Artificial intelligence has been the subject of optimism,[10] but has also suffered setbacks[11] and, today, has become an essential part of the technology industry, providing the heavy lifting for many of the most difficult problems in computer science.[12]

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