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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) …

The Guardian view on spooky science: AI needs regulating before it's too late

#artificialintelligenceNov-1-2021, 18:45:30 GMT

"Progress in AI is something that will take a while to happen, but [that] doesn't make it science fiction." So Stuart Russell, the University of California computing professor, told the Guardian at the weekend. The scientist said researchers had been "spooked" by their own success in the field. Prof Russell, the co-author of the top artificial intelligence (AI) textbook, is giving this year's BBC's Reith lectures – which have just begun – and his doubts appear increasingly relevant. With little debate about its downsides, AI is becoming embedded in society.

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