AI for Dummies // FABERNOVEL

Indeed, there are several ways to consider what AI is. The first – and the most common – is to look at the sought-after outcome of AI research: roughly speaking, either the "creation and study of machines that behave in a way that denotes intelligence (note: whatever'behave' may mean)" or "the creation and study of machines that think (note: whatever'think' may mean)". The second way to define AI is by looking at its components or sub-problems it is aiming to solve. The ones you'll most often hear of are: We can't resist adding a more cultural – or aspirational – way to define artificial intelligence, suggested in 1998 by Astro Teller (now CEO of X, Alphabet's "moonshot factory"): "AI is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies." Indeed, this definition is not far from the concepts of Artificial General Intelligence (or strong AI or full AI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (or superintelligence), of which the examples abound in the works of science fiction.