Natural Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence - DZone AI

Everything built by humans is meant to work within a proper environment. Herbert A. Simon, in his book The Sciences of the Artificial, defines things that are created or manipulated by humans as artificial systems. These systems are composed of an inner environment and they interact with the outer environment -- that is, the external world -- through an interface. Examples of artificial systems may include cars, a cotton farm, or a computer program. These systems, even biological ones, exist only to serve humans a predefined purpose.