artificial intelligence

noun

1
: the capability of computer systems or algorithms to imitate intelligent human behavior
A Monmouth University poll released last week found that only 9 percent of Americans believed that computers with artificial intelligence would do more good than harm to society.Shira Ovide
also, plural artificial intelligences : a computer, computer system, or set of algorithms having this capability
Someday, our artificial intelligences will be capable enough to pass for human. Benjamin C. Kinney
see also generative artificial intelligence
2
: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers
researchers working in artificial intelligence

Examples of artificial intelligence in a Sentence

a robot with artificial intelligence
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Word History

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of artificial intelligence was in 1955

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Kids Definition

artificial intelligence

noun
: the power of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

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