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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."
However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …
PhD. dissertation, Harvard University, August 1967. Reprinted as a volume in the series Outstanding Dissertations in the Computer Sciences, New York: Garland Publishing, 1979
An early, vehement attack on the possibility of creating intelligent machines.
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RAND paper P-3244, p. 10, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, December 1965.