The study of intelligence, once dominated by biologists, has for decades been a focus for computer scientists. (Kitano 2007)
Synonyms
Artificial intelligence is a wide term, often used synonymously with the terms computational intelligence and machine intelligence. It is abbreviated as AI and today is used by the media to refer to any remotely clever program.
Definition
Intelligence, a term which defies a unified definition, is one of the most unique human traits. Artificial intelligence is the reproduction of any such behavior through the programming of a machine. This section aims to illustrate the difficulty of defining the very term artificial intelligence.
Background
The term artificial intelligence (AI) originates from a workshop held in 1956 at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (Brooks 2001), but its founding works predate this (Waldrop 1984b). Among these works is Alan Turing’s article on “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (Turing 1950) which opens with the question Can...
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Hildmann, H., Hirsch, B. (2018). Overview of Artificial Intelligence. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_228-1
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