Artificial beings with intelligence appeared as storytelling devices in antiquity, and have been common in fiction, as in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Karel Čapek's R.U.R.These characters and their fates raised many of the same issues now

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The general problem of simulating (or creating) intelligence has been broken down into sub-problems. These consist of particular traits or capabilities that researchers expect an

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Search and optimization
Many problems in AI can be solved theoretically by intelligently searching through many possible solutions: Reasoningcan be reduced to performing a search. For example, logical proof can be viewed as searching for a

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AI is relevant to any intellectual task. Modern artificial intelligence techniques are pervasive and are too numerous to list here. Frequently, when a technique reaches mainstream use,

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Defining artificial intelligence
Thinking vs. acting: the Turing test
Alan Turingwrote in 1950 "I propose to consider the question 'can

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Superintelligence
A superintelligence, hyperintelligence, or superhuman intelligence, is a hypothetical agent that would possess intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human mind. Superintelligence may also refer to the form or

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Thought-capable artificial beings have appeared as storytelling devices since antiquity, and have been a persistent theme in science fiction.
A common trope in these works began with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where a human creation becomes

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