Artificial intelligence

     Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and robots and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."

  Quotes about Artificial intelligence

• Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. -- Terry Pratchett
• The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. ― Edsger W. Dijkstra
• To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity. ― Brian Christian
• Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. ― Terry Pratchett
• I think they are a better race than humans ever were. ― Angelo Tsanatelis
• The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. ― Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Our ultimate objective is to make programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do. We shall…say that a program has common sense if it automatically deduces for itself a sufficient wide class of immediate consequences of anything it is told and what it already knows. ― John McCarthy
• Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ― Anon.
• I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. ― Claude Shannon
• Artificial intelligence is that field of computer usage which attempts to construct computational mechanisms for activities that are considered to require intelligence when performed by humans. ― Derek Partridge
• AI is about making machines more fathomable and more under the control of human beings, not less. Conventional technology has indeed been making our environment more complex and more incomprehensible, and if it continues as it is doing now the only conceivable outcome is disaster. ― Donald Michie
• Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do. ― Herbert Simon
• Artificial intelligence is the mimicking of human thought and cognitive processes to solve complex problems. ― Richard Stottler
• AI has never been a monolithic science; by the mid-1970s, the diverging interests of its pioneers were giving birth to recognizable specialties. ― Daniel Crevier
• Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. ― Bill Bulko
• Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.― Alan Kay
• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. ― Ray Kurzweil
• By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory. ― Michio Kaku