AI for Beginners

When I say Artificial Intelligence (AI), what comes to mind? Chances are that it's something about robots taking over the world. That's what I thought of the first time I started learning about it just a few years ago. But as I dove deeper into how AI really works, on both a programming and even somewhat of a mathematical level, I realized that AI is nothing like that, and yet so much more. First, let's clear something up.