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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."

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International Business TimesSep-27-2016, 04:35:51 GMT

Uber products head Jeff Holden has said that they are currently looking into short-haul flying vehicles for transporting passengers. VTOL is an aircraft that functions similarly to helicopters -- it can hover, take off and land vertically. He imagines that such an aircraft could transport multiple passengers on short-haul flights, according to CNET. Majority of VTOL research has been conducted by the military like DARPA, the United States defense agency responsible for developing new technologies.

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Industry: Transportation > Passenger (1.00)

Technology: Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Robots > Autonomous Vehicles (0.43)

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