What is artificial intelligence?
The term was coined in 1955 by a team including Harvard computer scientist Marvin Minsky. With no strict definition of the phrase, almost anything more complex than a calculator has been called artificial intelligence by someone.
But in the current debate, AI has come to mean something else. It boils down to this: most old-school computers do what they are told, following instructions given to them in the form of code. For them to solve more complex tasks, scientists are
