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What Artificial Intelligence Is

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Artificial intelligence is the field that builds and studies computational agents: systems that decide what to do, based on what they sense, in pursuit of goals.

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A commute app senses traffic and the clock, aims at earliest arrival, and picks the route. That is an agent — a modest one.

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The definition never mentions brains, consciousness, or silicon. That silence is deliberate.