Artificial intelligence

branch of science dealing with simulation and implementation of human intelligence on a computer, AI; simulated intelligence

The modern definition of artificial intelligence (or AI) is "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximizes its chances of success.  John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." Other names for the field have been proposed, such as computational intelligence,  synthetic intelligence  or computational rationality. The term artificial intelligence is also used to describe a property of machines or programs: the intelligence that the system demonstrates.
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Artificial intelligence, n a system that makes it possible for a machine to perform functions similar to human intelligence. [more]Artificial intelligence - Community and Resources

Noun
1. the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively; "workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in computers and robots"
(synonym) AI
(hypernym) computer science, computing
(hyponym) machine translation, MT

The science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by [people] (Minsky , 1968). See connectionism , symbolicism .
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