artificial intelligence

[ ahr-tuh-fish-uhl in-tel-i-juhns ]

noun

, Computers, Digital Technology.

1. 1. the capacity of a computer, robot, programmed device, or software application to perform operations and tasks analogous to learning and decision making in humans, such as speech recognition or question answering. : AI, A.I.
   2. a computer, robot, programmed device, or software application having this humanlike capacity: : AI, A.I.

      teaching human values to artificial intelligences.

2. the branch of computer science involved with the design of computers, robots, programmed devices, and software applications having the capacity to imitate human intelligence and thought. : AI, A.I.

artificial intelligence

noun

1. the study of the modelling of human mental functions by computer programs AI

artificial intelligence

1. The ability of a computer or other machine to perform actions thought to require intelligence. Among these actions are logical deduction and inference, creativity, the ability to make decisions based on past experience or insufficient or conflicting information, and the ability to understand spoken language.

artificial intelligence

1. The means of duplicating or imitating intelligence in computers , robots, or other devices, which allows them to solve problems, discriminate among objects, and respond to voice commands.

Word History and Origins

Origin of artificial intelligence¹

First recorded in 1955–60

A Closer Look

The goal of research on artificial intelligence is to understand the nature of thought and intelligent behavior and to design intelligent systems. A computer is not really intelligent; it just follows directions very quickly. At the same time, it is the speed and memory of modern computers that allows researchers to manage the huge quantities of data necessary to model human thought and behavior. An intelligent machine would be more flexible than a computer and would engage in the kind of “thinking” that people actually do. An example is vision. In theory, a network of sensors combined with systems for interpreting the data could produce the kind of pattern recognition that we take for granted as seeing and understanding what we see. In fact, developing software that can recognize subtle differences in objects (such as those we use to recognize human faces) is very difficult. The recognition of differences that we can perceive without deliberate effort would require massive amounts of data and elaborate guidelines to be recognized by an artificial intelligence system. According to the famous Turing Test, proposed in 1950 by British mathematician and logician Alan Turing, a machine would be considered intelligent if it could convince human observers that another human, rather than a machine, was answering their questions in conversation.

Example Sentences

Technology giants are striving to develop more and more applications that use artificial intelligence.

From BBC

Last month, Elon Musk suggested on X that users submit X-rays, PET scans, MRIs and other medical images to Grok, the platform’s artificial intelligence chatbot, to seek diagnoses.

From Los Angeles Times

"In order to use vulture knowledge, we need an interface -- and at GAIA, this interface is created by combining animal tags with artificial intelligence."

From Science Daily

The Yakimovich group recently published an image quality boosting model based on generative artificial intelligence.

From Science Daily

Google will also reportedly be asked to establish new measures around its artificial intelligence, Android operating system and use of data.

From BBC

Related Words

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