Artificial Intelligence Chapter 0: What It Is & Why You Should Care

Originally published on Towards AI the World's Leading AI and Technology News and Media Company. If you are building an AI-related product or service, we invite you to consider becoming an AI sponsor. At Towards AI, we help scale AI and technology startups. Let us help you unleash your technology to the masses. From Wall-E to Star Wars' R2D2, our understanding of artificial intelligence has been shaped by the fantastical ideas put forth in science fiction, which tends to portray a futuristic world with flying cars and robotic sidekicks -- a world that man and machine inhabit in concert.