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Definition: AI
(1) Apple's AI. See Apple Intelligence.
(2) (Artificial Intelligence) Devices and applications that exhibit human behavior. AI includes robots, self-driving cars, medical diagnosis, software programming and the generation of original text, images, poetry, videos, art and music from a description in a natural language (English, Swedish, etc.). In some cases, a question can be asked in one language and the answer given in another. See AI prompt, chatbot and What can AI do?
The Entire Field or One Application
AI may refer to the entire field of artificial intelligence or to a specific application of AI such as a chatbot like ChatGPT and Gemini. The term AI all by itself implies an AI application; for example, "there's an AI to handle this." The major AI applications are chatbots, agents and coders. See chatbot, AI agent, vibe coding and What can AI do?
Past and Present Buzzword
Although AI is the hottest topic on the planet, the concept was defined in the 1940s by English scientist, Alan Turing, who said (paraphrased), "a machine has AI when you canot tell the difference between the machine and a person" (see Turing test).
Will AI Eliminate Jobs?
Increasingly, people are concerned that AI will eliminate too many jobs. This is not unfounded because job loss is predicted by many experts, although others in the field say this is overhyped. Nevertheless, Elon Musk claims AI will cause substantial disruption by eliminating regular desk and white-collar jobs. Musk also touts universal basic income for the future. See AI optimism and AI anxiety.
A Twist in Terminology
In the tech world "intelligence" means executing instructions. Therefore, your microwave oven is intelligent because it has a computer on a chip inside it, but an AI that writes a beautiful poem is only "artificially" intelligent. See intelligence, AI in a nutshell and AI glossary.
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(2) (Artificial Intelligence) Devices and applications that exhibit human behavior. AI includes robots, self-driving cars, medical diagnosis, software programming and the generation of original text, images, poetry, videos, art and music from a description in a natural language (English, Swedish, etc.). In some cases, a question can be asked in one language and the answer given in another. See AI prompt, chatbot and What can AI do?
The Entire Field or One Application
AI may refer to the entire field of artificial intelligence or to a specific application of AI such as a chatbot like ChatGPT and Gemini. The term AI all by itself implies an AI application; for example, "there's an AI to handle this." The major AI applications are chatbots, agents and coders. See chatbot, AI agent, vibe coding and What can AI do?
Past and Present Buzzword
Although AI is the hottest topic on the planet, the concept was defined in the 1940s by English scientist, Alan Turing, who said (paraphrased), "a machine has AI when you canot tell the difference between the machine and a person" (see Turing test).
Will AI Eliminate Jobs?
Increasingly, people are concerned that AI will eliminate too many jobs. This is not unfounded because job loss is predicted by many experts, although others in the field say this is overhyped. Nevertheless, Elon Musk claims AI will cause substantial disruption by eliminating regular desk and white-collar jobs. Musk also touts universal basic income for the future. See AI optimism and AI anxiety.
A Twist in Terminology
In the tech world "intelligence" means executing instructions. Therefore, your microwave oven is intelligent because it has a computer on a chip inside it, but an AI that writes a beautiful poem is only "artificially" intelligent. See intelligence, AI in a nutshell and AI glossary.
Video game enthusiasm in the 1990s caused AI to flourish in the 2020s. Because gamers constantly demanded increased speed to make their 3D games more realistic, NVIDIA kept making faster graphics processing units (GPUs), later used for AI. See GPU.
That's what Farzad Mesbahi asks in his provocative 2026 book. There is reason to believe AI can lead to a utopian society or bring about total collapse. Like most things, it will likely be somewhere in the middle. Stay tuned! See AI utopia and AI anxiety.
The world's understanding of AI is in Stanford University's AI Index. The 425-page 2026 Index covers the subject in exhaustive detail. See Stanford HAI.