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2 - Essence of AI

What Is AI?

from Part I - AI: Development and Trends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

By
Pascal D. König ,
Tobias D. Krafft ,
Wolfgang Schulz  and
Katharina A. Zweig
Edited by
Larry A. DiMatteo ,
Cristina Poncibò  and
Michel Cannarsa
Larry A. DiMatteo
Affiliation:
University of Florida
Cristina Poncibò
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Michel Cannarsa
Affiliation:
Catholic University of Lyon, France
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Summary

AI is a complex, multifaceted concept and is therefore hard to define because AI can refer to technological artifacts, certain methods or a scientific field that is split into many subfields and that is continuously changing and evolving AI systems can therefore be seen as digital artifacts that require hardware and software components and that contain at least one learning or learned component, i.e., a component that is able to change the system’s behavior based on presented data and the processing of this data.

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Technology of AImachine learningAlphaGostrong and weak AI
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The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence
Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics
 , pp. 18 - 34
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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