Author: Ryan Turpin

Any discussion about artificial intelligence (AI), or even the history of artificial intelligence, tends to end up centered on what the term actually means. In the case of other words, you’d just search for the definition, but it’s not so simple with AI – even experts in the field don’t agree on a unified meaning.  Put simply, AI is the general idea of an object or device having the ability to perceive its environment and act on what it observes.  Depending on the context, it can also refer to the specific methods – for example, natural language processing – that…