Artificial intelligence (AI)
The broad field of computer science focused on building systems that perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence, from pattern recognition to reasoning and language understanding.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella term covering any technique that enables machines to mimic or approximate cognitive functions such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
The field spans decades of approaches: from early symbolic AI and expert systems, through machine learning and neural networks, to today’s large language models and multimodal systems.
AI is not a single technology but a family of methods. What counts as “AI” shifts over time, once a capability becomes routine (spell-check, route planning), it often stops being called AI in everyday language.
Long-range speculation, technological singularity, AGI, superintelligence (ASI), alignment, Dead Internet theory, sits alongside the concrete state of today’s systems.