artificial intelligence

== English == === Etymology === Coined by American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy in 1955, and popularized at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, 1956. === Pronunciation === enPR: är′tə-fĭsh′əl ĭn-tĕl′ə-jəns (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɑː.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtɛl.ə.d͡ʒəns/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɑɹ.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtɛl.ə.d͡ʒəns/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɐː.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtel.ə.d͡ʒəns/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌɐː.təˈfəʃ.əl ənˈtel.ə.d͡ʒəns/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˌaɹ.təˈfɪʃ.əl ɪnˈtɛl.ə.d͡ʒəns/ (India) IPA(key): /ˌaːʳ.ʈiˈfɪʃ.al ɪnˈʈɛl.i.d͡ʒens/ Hyphenation: ar‧ti‧fi‧cial in‧tel‧li‧gence === Noun === artificial intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural artificial intelligences) Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (nonnatural, manmade, humanmade) entity. (computer science) The branch of computer science dealing with the reproduction or mimicking of human-level intelligence, self-awareness, knowledge, conscience, and thought in computer programs. The essential quality of a machine which thinks in a manner similar to or on the same general level as a real human being. (video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player; AI. (computing) A computer system or software package which is artificially intelligent. (countable, chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware computer or computer program. 2000, Sheldon Pacotti (writer) & Warren Spector (director/producer), Deus Ex: What Daedadus really is, is the world's first successful wholly autonomous AI. Whatever mysterious organization managed to create the first true artificial intelligence succeeded so well that their creation managed to convince them that they'd failed... and then escaped. (proscribed, specifically) Synonym of generative artificial intelligence. ==== Synonyms ==== AI (initialism) machine intelligence synthetic intelligence ==== Hypernyms ==== intelligence (self-aware computer): see Thesaurus:sentient ==== Coordinate terms ==== (deployed product): expert system (subbranch of computer science): expert systems ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === (self-aware computer): Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “artificial intelligence”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10. (self-aware computer): Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2026), “artificial intelligence n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. === Further reading === artificial intelligence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia