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Artificial intelligence is a cross‑disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence, influencing cognitive science and the humanities, and transforming interactions with the environment while offering new insights into the human mind. The volume aims to present the state of the art in AI by surveying its foundations, major mental‑architecture theories, principal research areas, and extensions such as artificial life. It achieves this through a collection of original essays that focus on theory rather than technical or applied issues, providing an authoritative introduction for AI researchers and scholars in other disciplines.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including the humanities. AI applications are transforming the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and work in artificially modeling intelligence is offering new insights into the human mind and revealing new forms mentality can take. This volume of original essays presents the state of the art in AI, surveying the foundations of the discipline, major theories of mental architecture, the principal areas of research, and extensions of AI such as artificial life. With a focus on theory rather than technical and applied issues, the volume will be valuable not only to people working in AI, but also to those in other disciplines wanting an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to the field.