The field of Artificial Intelligence encompasses all efforts at imbuing computational devices with capabilities that have traditionally been viewed as requiring human-level intelligence.
This includes:
Chess, go and generalised game playing
Planning and goal-directed behaviour in dynamic and complex environments
Theorem proving, proof assistants and symbolic reasoning
Computer vision
Natural language understanding and translation
Deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning
Learning from experience and existing data
Understanding and emulating emotion
Fuzzy and probabilistic (Bayesean) reasoning
Communication, teamwork, negotiation and argumentation between self-interested agents
Early advances in signal processing (text to speech)
Music understanding and creation
Like intelligence itself it defies definition. As a field, it predates Machine Learning and Machine Learning was seen as an early sub-field. Many things that are obvious or no longer considered AI have their roots in the field. Many database models (hierarchical, network and relational) have their roots…