Artificial Intelligence: Or how I learned to stop ranting and love the buzzword

With such a broad definition, it's no wonder that AI is everywhere. We can basically stretch the definition of AI to fit any system that replaces human behaviour/intervention in any way. Since the 1950s people have been developing systems and calling it artificial intelligence (it goes further back, but that's when computer AI started). When it started it was based on the human brain and how digital signals are passed around the brain. This was the first attempt at a system that thinks humanly. But the problem is as far as we know, there's more to thinking than just electrons firing.