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Definition of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

What is the definition of artificial intelligence? What methods does it encompass? Dr. Day will guide us in exploring them together.

How would you define artificial intelligence?

In this section, different definitions of AI are presented, along with four approaches to AI: thinking humanly, thinking rationally , acting humanly, and acting rationally. Among them, acting humanly will be discussed, including the Turing Test and two other algorithm families.

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