Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), the capability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to achieve tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is regularly applied to the project of developing systems capable with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, determine meaning, generalize, or discover from past experience. Still, although continuing advances in computer processing speed and memory competence, there are as yet no programs that can match human flexibility over wider domains or in tasks requiring much everyday knowledge. Some programs have attained the performance levels of human experts and professionals in performing certain particular tasks, so that artificial intelligence in this limited intellect is originated in applications as diverse as medical diagnosis, computer search engines, and voice or handwriting recognition.