Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence Home Technology Computers artificial intelligence Alternate titles: AI By B.J. Copeland • Edit History Top Questions What is artificial intelligence? Are artificial intelligence and machine learning the same? What is the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society? Summary Read a brief summary of this topic artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. Since the development of the digital computer in the 1940s, it has been demonstrated that computers can be programmed to carry out very complex tasks—as, for example, discovering proofs for mathematical theorems or playing chess—with great proficiency. Still, ...