ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial Intelligence is a constellation of many different technologies working together to allow machines to perceive, understand, act, and learn at a human-like level of intelligence. One subset of AI is machine learning, which refers to the concept that computer programs can learn automatically and adapt to new data without the assistance of humans. Artificial intelligence is built around the principle that human intelligence can be defined so a machine can mimic it effortlessly and perform tasks, ranging from the simplest to the more complicated. AI allows computers and machines to emulate the perceptual, learning, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities of a human mind.

In common use, AI refers to a computers or machines ability to emulate the capabilities of a human mind--learning by example and experience, recognizing objects, understanding and responding to language, making decisions, resolving problems--and to combine those capabilities with others in order to carry out functions that humans can do, such as greeting hotel guests or driving a car. Artificial intelligence (AI) is often applied to projects that design systems that are equipped with intellectual processes that are typical of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experiences. Strong AI, also known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), describes programming capable of replicating the cognitive abilities of a human brain. Building AI systems is the painstaking process of reversing human traits and abilities into machines, and using its computing power to exceed what we are capable of.

In this way, AI software improves the human experience, augmenting the capabilities of humans. Some programs achieve human-like levels of expertise and professionalism at performing specific, specialized tasks, such that artificial intelligence in this narrow sense is found in applications as varied as medical diagnosis, computer search engines, and speech or handwriting recognition. For instance, machines that compute rudimentary functions, or that identify text by optical character recognition, are no longer considered to embody AI, as the function is now taken as a given, an intrinsic function of computers.