Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a subfield of computer science concerned with the concepts and methods of by computer and symbolic  for use in making such inferences.

Description
AI is seen as an attempt to model aspects of human thought on computers. It is also sometimes defined as trying to solve any problem that a human can solve, but more quickly with a computer. The term is often used as a selling point, like describing programming that drives the behavior of computer characters in a game. However, this may be no more intelligent than "Kill any humans you see; keep walking; avoid solid objects; duck if a human with a gun can see you".

History
The term was coined by late Stanford University professor, a leading AI researcher while at in 1955. The field can be traced back to the, a set of criteria defined in 1950 by to evaluate a machine's ability to behave like a human.

Examples of early AI problems included (building a system that can understand images as well as a human) and  (building a system that can understand and speak a human language as well as a human). In 1993, these modular challenges foundered on the sheer amount of context information required for such "intelligence". This eventually became practical on consumer devices as more powerful mobile processors made machine learning possible through artificial neural networks.

Apple and AI
It has been reported in March 2023 that Apple is internally working on natural-language generation AI technology for its Siri virtual assistant in its iOS 16.4 update. This was fuelled by the rise of and other generative AI models.