-Making computers perceive, reason, and act in ways that have been reserved for humans.

-No computer yet has been fully described as having AI but scientists are attempting to work to a point where there is no distinguishing feature between the response of a human and a computer.

-Example: Watson (Jeopardy)

-Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces.

 -It makes programs run faster because more CPU's are running it.

-Example: Satellites used for weather forecasting

-Language that people speak and write everyday.

-People use this natural language to communicate with each other.

-Example: I speak American

-Software program that can ask questions, respond to commands, pay attention to users' work patterns, serve as a guide, take on goals, and use reasoning to fabricate own goals.

-People use agents when they need help with something specific on a software program

-Example: Data mining agents, buyer agents, user agents

-Information systems or software programs designed to replicate the decision-making process of a human expert.

-It is used as a substitue for a human expert and contains knowledge for a specific field of study.

-Example: Dendral and Mycin

-A computer program that tries to derive answers from a knowledge base.

-It is considered to be the the "brain" of the expert system, used to reason about the information in the knowledge base in order to draw conclusions.

-Example: SIE (Simple Inference Engine)

-A type of logic that allows conclusions to be stated as probabilities rather than certainties.

-Fuzzy logic can essentially be described as the way to handle the partial truth-what lies between completely true and completely false

-Example: There is an 85% chance that it will snow tomorrow

-A class of Internet addresses indicated by a suffix

-A domain is what classifies different groups of websites. Each fall into a certain category.

-Example: .org, .com, .net