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- Definitions of Artificial Intelligence
Herbert Simon:We call programs intelligent if they exhibit behaviors that would be regarded intelligent if they were exhibited by human beings.
Elaine Rich:AI is the study of techniques for solving exponentially hard problems in polynomial time by exploiting knowledge about the problem domain.
Elaine Rich and Kevin Knight:AI is the study of how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are better.Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig: [AI] has to do with smart programs, so let's get on and write some.
Avron Barr and Edward Feigenbaum:Physicists ask what kind of place this universe is and seek to characterize its behavior systematically. Biologists ask what it means for a physical system to be living. We in AI wonder what kind of information-processing system can ask such questions.
Claudson Bornstein:AI is the science of common sense.
Douglas Baker:AI is the attempt to make computers do what people think computers cannot do.
Astro Teller:AI is the attempt to make computers do what they do in the movies.