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Artificial intelligence, the abbreviation is AI. It is focus on research and develops the theory, method, techniques and application for simulating and extending of human intelligence. AI is a branch of computer science, it attempts to understand the essence of intelligence, and finally produce a new machine which can respond like a human. The researches in that field include robotics, speech recognition, image recognition, natural language processing and expert systems.
Subject field
Artificial intelligence is an interdisciplinary, belongs to both social science and natural science.
Related disciplines
Include philosophy, cognitive science, mathematics, neurophysiology, psychology, computer science, information theory, control theory, uncertainty theory and bionics.
Research field
Natural language processing, knowledge representation, intelligent search, reasoning, planning, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, perception problems, pattern recognition, logic programming, soft computing, artificial life, neural networks, complex systems, genetic algorithms and the way humans think.
Security issue
Scientists are still researching on AI. However, some scholars believe that to make the computer have IQ is very dangerous, it may against human beings. The hidden dangers also occurred in many films.