Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i.e. ) system. The term is often applied to general purpose computers and also in the field of scientific investigation into the theory and practical application of AI. "AI" the term is often used in works of science fiction to refer to that which exhibits artificial intelligence as well, as in "the AI" referring to a singular discrete or distributed mechanism.

AI Researchers

There are many thousands of AI researchers (see :Category:Artificial intelligence researchers) around the world at hundreds of research institutions and companies. Among the many who have made significant contributions are:

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• Alan Turing
• Boris Katz
• Doug Lenat
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Geoffrey Hinton
• John McCarthy
• Karl Sims
• Kevin Warwick
• Igor Aleksander
• Marvin Minsky
• Seymour Papert
• Maggie Boden
• Mike Brady
• Oliver Selfridge
• Raj Reddy
• Judea Pearl
• Rodney Brooks
• Roger Schank
• Terry Winograd
• Rolf Pfeifer
• James Hendler
• Ali Sohani
• Sankar K Pal