artificial intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field of building machines and software that perform tasks associated with human intelligence, such as perception, reasoning, learning, decision making, and natural language use.

Modern AI spans symbolic approaches that manipulate explicit rules and knowledge, statistical and machine-learning methods that learn patterns from data, and hybrid systems that integrate both symbolic reasoning and data-driven learning.

Use cases of AI include search and recommendation, computer vision, speech and language processing, robotics, planning, and generative modeling. AI practice distinguishes narrow AI systems, which excel at specific tasks, from the broader, still-hypothetical goal of general intelligence.