artificial intelligence

noun artificial intelligences

1. countable, uncountable The branch of computer science dealing with the reproduction or mimicking of human-level intelligence, self-awareness, knowledge, conscience, and thought in computer programs. Research in the modern science of Artificial Intelligence started only in the 1950's, stimulated by the invention of modern computers. This inspired a flood of new ideas about how machines could do what only minds had done previously.
2. countable, uncountable The essential quality of a machine which thinks in a manner similar to or on the same general level as a real human being. This computer possesses artificial intelligence.
3. countable, uncountable A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player; AI. The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a surprise hit when it was released in 2010. A surprise because it seemed an unequivocally awful game, with half broken graphics and artificial intelligence, a tediously linear story campaign, and an undernourished multiplayer mode.
4. countable, uncountable A computer system or software package which is artificially intelligent. Leo also said journalists must use artificial intelligence with “responsibility and discernment”.
5. countable An intelligent, self-aware computer or computer program. While the humans scurried in confusion, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) created by MIT/Bell Labs linked itself into the network of high-speed, twentieth generation computers placed at its disposal by a Red Alert Priority, evaluated data thoughtfully for a minute and a half and then proceeded to get
6. countable, proscribed, specifically, uncountable Synonym of generative artificial intelligence. He’s arguing that “image enhancement” is not the same thing as AI, because it’s a lot like the technology that most of your smartphones use when you’re taking a video.

Similar: AI, machine intelligence, synthetic intelligence