Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software, as


opposed to the intelligence of living beings, primarily of humans. It is
a field of study in computer science that develops and studies intelligent
machines. Such machines may be called AIs.
AI technology is widely used throughout industry, government, and
science. Some high-profile applications are: advanced web search
engines (e.g., Google Search), recommendation systems (used
by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix), interacting via human speech (such
as Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa), self-driving
cars (e.g., Waymo), generative and creative tools (ChatGPT and AI art),
and superhuman play and analysis in strategy games (such
as chess and Go).[
Alan Turing was the first person to conduct substantial research in the
field that he called machine intelligence. Artificial intelligence was
founded as an academic discipline in 1956. The field went through
multiple cycles of optimism, followed by periods of disappointment and
loss of funding, known as AI winter. Funding and interest vastly
increased after 2012 when deep learning surpassed all previous AI
techniques,[8] and after 2017 with the transformer architecture.[9] This led
to the AI spring of the early 2020s, with companies, universities, and
laboratories overwhelmingly based in the United States pioneering
significant advances in artificial intelligence. The growing use of artificial
intelligence in the 21st century is influencing a societal and economic
shift towards increased automation, data-driven decision-making, and
the integration of AI systems into various economic sectors and areas of
life, impacting job markets, healthcare, government, industry,
and education. This raises questions about the ethical
implications and risks of AI, prompting discussions about regulatory
policies to ensure the safety and benefits of the technology.
The various sub-fields of AI research are centered around particular
goals and the use of particular tools. The traditional goals of AI research
include reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural
language processing, perception, and support for robotics. General
intelligence (the ability to complete any task performable by a human) is
among the field's long-term goals.
To solve these problems, AI researchers have adapted and integrated a
wide range of problem-solving techniques,
including search and mathematical optimization, formal logic, artificial
neural networks, and methods based on statistics, operations research,
and economics.[b] AI also draws
upon psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience and other fields.

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