Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by biological sentient species, which involves consciousness and emotionality. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is often used to describe machines that mimic "cognitive" functions that species associate with the mind, such as "learning" and "problem solving".

Examples in fiction:
 * HAL 9000, the murderous computer in charge of the Discovery One spaceship in the Space Odyssey Universe
 * SkyNet in the Terminator Universe
 * Machines and programs in The Matrix
 * Ava the female robot from Ex Machina