What is Artificial Intelligence anyway? techsocialnetwork

Luckily, with the miracle of technology at my fingertips, I can employ a very sophisticated technique to attack this problem: go and read what some random people have written on Wikipedia. If you go to the Wikipedia article on "Artificial Intelligence", you will find a short section labelled "Definitions", which contains the following: Computer science defines AI research as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Wow, that's impressive – as a (questionably) intelligent human, I don't think even I can do that. Suppose I have a difficult goal, say being able to run 100m in under 10 seconds. I don't really know how to achieve it, so I go to my friend for advice and say "Hey, could you give me some advice on how to achieve my goal of running really fast".