Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Esri Inc., Redlands, CA 92 373 Summary Abstract: Artificial Intelligence ( AI) ha s received tremendous attention from academia, industry, and the general public in recent years. The integration of geography and AI, or GeoAI, provides novel approaches for addressing a variety of problems in the natural environment and our human society . This entry briefly reviews the recent development of AI with a focus on machine learning and deep learning approaches . We discuss the integration of AI with geography and particularly geographic information science, and present a number of GeoAI applicatio ns and p ossible future directions. Definitions 1. Artificial Intelligence: The study and design of machines or computational methods that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Description/body 1. AI and Geography Artificial Intelligence (AI) has received tremendous attention in recent years from academia, industry, and the general public. Despite its recent popularity, the field was born back in 1956 at a workshop at Dartmouth College (McCarthy 1956) .