What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a part of our daily lives -- from language translation to medical diagnostics and driverless cars to facial recognition -- it's making more of an impact on industry and society every day. But what exactly is AI? Simply put, AI is a technology that replicates human intelligence through computers, systems or machines. This is a fairly broad description, however, and different people have different ways of interpreting it. Whatever its description, the concept of AI isn't new and has been around since at least 1950. That was when Alan Turing, an influential computer scientist and mathematician, speculated about AI as'thinking machines'. Turing went on to develop the'Turing test', which identifies artificial intelligence based on a machine's ability to do reasoning puzzles with human-like capabilities.