Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science, concerning with 2 ideas:
i) the study of human thought processes (to understand what intelligence is), and
Ii) the representation and duplication of those thought processes in machines (computers, robots, etc.)
Rich and Knight 1991: “behavior by a machine that, if performed by a human being, would be called intelligent.”
A well-known AI system is “Deep Blue”, developed by a research team at IBM. The system beat the famous world champion, Grand Master Garry Kasparov, in a game that usually only highly intelligent people can win.