Artificial intelligence  

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence of humans and other animals. Example tasks in which this is done include speech recognition, computer vision, translation between (natural) languages, as well as other mappings of inputs.

Artificial beings with intelligence appeared as storytelling devices in antiquity, and have been common in fiction, as in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Karel Čapek's R.U.R. These characters and their fates raised many of the same issues now discussed in the ethics of artificial intelligence.

In modern fiction

By the 19th century, ideas about artificial men and thinking machines were developed in fiction, as in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots),Template:Sfn and speculation, such as Samuel Butler's "Darwin among the Machines",Template:Sfn and in real world instances, including Edgar Allan Poe's "Maelzel's Chess Player". AI has become a regular topic of science fiction through the present.

See also

• Philosophy of mind
• Simulated reality
• Artificial intelligence art
• Text-to-image model
• Open letter against AI