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Artificial intelligence
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- 1 Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (nonnatural, humanmade) entity.; The branch of computer science dealing with the reproduction or mimicking of human-level intelligence, self-awareness, knowledge, conscience, and thought in computer programs. countable, uncountable
"Research in the modern science of Artificial Intelligence started only in the 1950's, stimulated by the invention of modern computers. This inspired a flood of new ideas about how machines could do what only minds had done previously."
- 2 the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively wordnet
- 3 Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (nonnatural, humanmade) entity.; The essential quality of a machine which thinks in a manner similar to or on the same general level as a real human being. countable, uncountable
"This computer possesses artificial intelligence."
- 4 Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (nonnatural, humanmade) entity.; A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player; AI. countable, uncountable
"The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a surprise hit when it was released in 2010. A surprise because it seemed an unequivocally awful game, with half broken graphics and artificial intelligence, a tediously linear story campaign, and an undernourished multiplayer mode."
- 5 Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (nonnatural, humanmade) entity.; A computer system or software package which is artificially intelligent. countable, uncountable
"Leo also said journalists must use artificial intelligence with “responsibility and discernment”."
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- 6 Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (nonnatural, humanmade) entity.; An intelligent, self-aware computer or computer program. countable
"While the humans scurried in confusion, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) created by MIT/Bell Labs linked itself into the network of high-speed, twentieth generation computers placed at its disposal by a Red Alert Priority, evaluated data thoughtfully for a minute and a half and then proceeded to get in touch with its opposite number in the Russian Republics."
- 7 Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (nonnatural, humanmade) entity.; Synonym of generative artificial intelligence. countable, proscribed, specifically, uncountable
"He’s arguing that “image enhancement” is not the same thing as AI, because it’s a lot like the technology that most of your smartphones use when you’re taking a video."
Etymology
Coined by American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy in 1955, and popularized at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, 1956.
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