Artificial Intelligence

An artificially intelligent being.

This has been [see page 22, assessed] in different ways across the history of AI:

Thinking Humanly
- Machines with minds in the full and literal sense.
- The automation of activities that we associate with human thinking (decision making, problem solving, learning, ...).
Thinking Rationally
- The study of mental faculties through the use of computational models.
- The study of the computations that make it possible to perceive, reason and act.
Acting Humanly
- Creating machines that perform functions and require intelligence when performed by people.
- Making computers do things which at the moment people can do better.
Acting Rationally
- Study of the design of intelligent agents.
- Intelligent behaviour in artefacts.

Observe that all of these definitions either focus on thinking or acting humanly or rationally.