What Is Intelligent About Artificial Intelligence?

Recently, the term Artificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Intelligence (AI) came into the focus of public discussion. An Artificial Intelligence system is supposed to be able to perceive its environment and behave intelligently, similar to humans. However, this definition is imprecise because the term “intelligence” is difficult to delineate. Therefore, this chapter discusses the individual dimensions of AI. Most AI systems are tasked with associating an input (e.g., an image) with an output (e.g., a class of images objects). Inputs and outputs are represented by sets of numbers. This mapping is not manually programmed, but successively adapted and trained based on observations and data. This process is also called “learning”.