Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is a new technical science to study and develop theories, methods, technologies and application systems that simulate, extend and expand human intelligence.
Artificial intelligence, also known as intelligent machinery and machine intelligence, refers to the intelligence displayed by machines made by people. Usually artificial intelligence refers to the technology of presenting human intelligence through ordinary computer programs. Through the progress of medicine, neuroscience, robotics and statistics, some predictions suggest that countless occupations of human beings are gradually replaced by artificial intelligence.
Professor Nelson, a famous research center of artificial intelligence at Stanford University in the United States, defines artificial intelligence as: "Artificial intelligence is a subject about knowledge-how to express knowledge, how to acquire and use knowledge." What about the other one? Professor Winston of Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinks: "Artificial intelligence is to study how to make computers do intelligent work that only people can do in the past."
These statements reflect the basic ideas and contents of artificial intelligence. That is, artificial intelligence is the basic theory, method and technology to study the law of human intelligence activities, construct an artificial system with certain intelligence, and study how to make computers do the work that needed human intelligence in the past, that is, how to use computer software and hardware to simulate some intelligent behaviors of human beings.
Detailed definition:
The definition of artificial intelligence can be divided into two parts, namely "artificial" and "intelligence". "Artificial" is easier to understand and less controversial. Sometimes we have to consider what human beings can do, or whether human intelligence is high enough to create artificial intelligence, and so on. But in general, "artificial system" is an artificial system in the usual sense.
There are many questions about what "intelligence" is. This involves consciousness, ego, mind (including unconscious mind) and other issues. It is generally believed that the only intelligence people know is their own intelligence.
However, our understanding of the necessary elements of our own intelligence and human intelligence is very limited, so it is difficult to define what "artificial" intelligence is. So the study of artificial intelligence often involves the study of human intelligence itself. Other intelligence about animals or other artificial systems is generally considered as a research topic related to artificial intelligence.