artificial intelligence

Definition/Scope: The discipline concerned with the technology, the background, and the theory of building computer systems that perform functions that would be said to require intelligence if performed by humans or animals (or functions that might otherwise be described as intelligent). AI is an interdisciplinary area with inputs from computer science, psychology, neuroscience, cybernetics, linguistics and philosophy. AI is concerned with such things as natural language understanding, machine learning, compute

Acronym:

AI

Broader Terms:

machine theory

Narrower Terms:

machine translation
natural language processing

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