The Intelligent Computer
This book is about the field that has come to be called Artificial Intelligence. In this chapter, you learn how to define Artificial Intelligence, and you learn how the book is arranged. You get a feeling for why Artificial Intelligence is important, both as a branch of engineering and as a kind of science. You learn about some successful applications of Artificial Intelligence. And finally, you learn about criteria you can use to determine whether work in Artificial Intelligence is successful.
The Field and the Book
There are many ways to define the field of Artificial Intelligence. Here is one: Artificial Intelligence is ... the study of the computations that make it possible to perceive, reason, and act. From the perspective of this definition, Artificial Intelligence differs from most of psychology because of the greater emphasis on computation, and Artificial Intelligence differs from most of computer science because of the emphasis on perception,......
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