What is artificial intelligence?

IMAGE: Cover for "What is Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation between an AI Engineer and a Humanities Researcher " view more What do the words'artificial' and'intelligence' mean? And what are the consequences of developing AI? Instead of reiterating received definitions or surveying the field from a disciplinary perspective, Peter and Suman put two differing standpoints into conversation in their new book What is Artificial Intelligence? to engage with these questions and more. Peter is an AI engineer: with his applied approach, he focuses on how to make AI work. Suman is a humanities researcher: his approach is conceptual and so he concentrates on what people and academics mean when they say'AI'. Covering issues such as the meaning of'automation' and'language', What is Artificial Intelligence?