What do you think of when you hear the words artificial intelligence or AI ?

Question

Any answer will do. I am using this information in a report for school. So I need as many as possible. And please only answer once.

Answer 1

Quoted from http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/aieffect.html

Researchers joked that AI stood for 'almost implemented'. AI research projects that worked well enough to make it on to the market, such as speech recognition, language translation, decision-support software, landing planes, reading hand-written postcards to sort mail, are suddenly no longer AI.
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People often confuse AI with AH (artificially human). Artificial Intelligence is actually fairly easy and is done all the time. Its part of vending machines, streetlights, installation software, autopilots on planes, etc. Fuel injection systems in our cars use learning algorithms. Jet turbines are designed using genetic algorithms. Every cell phone call and e-mail is routed using artificial intelligence. All of those are examples of AI used in books on the subject.

Games are a great example of the difference. A computer opponent that is intelligent will be able to move from point A to point B and go around obstacles. But if it always does it "intelligently" then it would be a straight line which the games would take advantage of quickly. If the game opponent is more human then it would vary it with flanking movements or attack from behind.

Game programmers consider it to be a funny comment on humanity that to make an AI more human, you remove some of the intelligence and add more random. (which does actually tend to win more often)

Answer 2

A class from uni. And the two hours of my life I wasted watching that stupid Spielberg movie.

Answer 3

First I think, "Aliens." Then I think, "Robots." Both are probably incorrect: shows you how much I pay attention to science.