What is Artificial Intelligence

We humans have been getting smarter for millennia. Instead of asking this question, we can find some answers using the term Artificial Intelligence. AI comes from the Latin word Artificiality which means "play". It really is so used today as a generic term for a whole range of things including pattern recognition, natural language processing, image recognition, mechanical operation, and many more, but primarily time-based (via computer systems). Before we look at ways in which AI can help us, let's look at how we define AI, so that we can also judge the quality of AI systems currently using this term and the new ways of using AI that are coming.