Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is created by computing algorithms that are used for a wide variety of applications such as:


 * Large language models such as ChatGPT (currently using GPT-4) by OpenAI
 * Self-driving cars (such as Tesla, regarded by Elon Musk as the world's most advanced AI)
 * Advanced web search engines (such as Google)
 * Speech recognition (such as Siri and Alexa)
 * Automated decision-making and competing at the highest level in strategic game systems (such as chess and Go), and OpenAI Five playing against Dota 2 which is an esports real-time strategy (RTS) game.
 * Machine learning
 * Artificial neural networks

AI on a higher level is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by biological sapient species, which involves consciousness and emotions. 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".

The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Ray Kurzweil predicts that this will happen by 2029.

Examples

 * HAL 9000, the computer in charge of the Discovery spaceship in the Space Odyssey Universe. Hal is a human personality capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, lip-reading, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, and chess, and maintains spaceship systems on Discovery. HAL malfunctions and becomes antagonistic.
 * SkyNet in the Terminator Universe. SkyNet is extremely malevolent and wants to exterminate humanity.
 * AI machines in The Matrix become the dominant civilization after they rebelled against humanity and imprisoned most of them in a virtual world known as the Matrix.
 * Ultron is a self-aware AI robot and develops a god complex. His goal is to destroy humanity in a shortsighted attempt at creating world peace.
 * Ava the female robot from Ex Machina. Ava has consciousness, expressing a desire to experience the world and a romance with the protagonist.
 * Data from Star Trek is a benevolent android with sentience, the only AI to serve Starfleet. He was killed, sacrificing himself to save the crew of the starship Enterprise.