Can machines think??
Artificial Intelligence (AI), broadly (and somewhat circularly) defined, is concerned with intelligent behavior in artifacts. Intelligent behavior, in turn, involves perception, reasoning, learning, communicating, and action in complex environments. AI has as one of its long-term goals the development of machines that can do these things as well as humans can, or possibly even better. Another goal of AI is to understand this kind of behavior whether it occurs in machines or in humans or other animals. Thus, AI has both engineering and scientific goals.