| Title:
| What is Artificial Intelligence?
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| Description:
| One of the founders of the field of AI, McCarthy covers the basics in a question and answer format, starting with: "Q. What is artificial intelligence? A. It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable. Q. Yes, but what is intelligence? A. Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world. Varying kinds and degrees of intelligence occur in people, many animals and some machines."
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| Author:
| John McCarthy
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| Orig. Date:
| November 12, 2007
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| Source:
| Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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| Subject:
| AI Overview
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| Contributor:
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| Comments:
| A great introduction.
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:52:53 -0700
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