artificial intelligence, n.
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Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: artificial adj., intelligence n.
Etymology: < artificial adj. + intelligence n.
The capacity of computers or other machines to exhibit or simulate intelligent behaviour; the field of study concerned with this. Abbreviated AI.
1955 J. McCarthy et al. 31 Aug.
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A proposal for the Dartmouth summer research project on artificial intelligence.
1956 M. L. Minsky Heuristic Aspects Artificial Intell. Probl. (M.I.T. Lincoln Lab. Group Rep. 34–55) iv. 4
In the random decisions desired in the domain of artificial intelligence, I am confident that the ‘precision’ required of pseudo-random sequences will be very much less than for mathematical or numerical purposes.
1966 Y. Bar-Hillel in Automatic Transl. of Lang.
(NATO Summer School, Venice, 1962)
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Though computers have been programmed to do certain things..it would be disastrous to extrapolate from these primitive exhibitions of artificial intelligence to something like translation.
1973 Sci. News 4 Aug. 76/1
Engineers..have combined a computer, a television camera and a mechanical arm into a system with enough artificial intelligence to recognize blocks of various sizes.
1993 Sci. Amer. Nov. 72/1
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A pioneer in the subdiscipline of artificial intelligence known as natural language processing.
2000 Guardian 28 Oct. i. 10/3
Magna has enlisted the team from the TV programme Robot Wars to make ‘flyborgs’—radio-controlled blimps with artificial intelligence.
2007 Fuzzy Sets & Syst. 158 927
Choquet integrals were proposed more than 50 years ago, and are used in various fields, like economics, decision theory, and artificial intelligence.
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