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Concept information

Preferred term

artificial intelligence

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information A discipline concerned with development of computer and extended-robotic systems that can exhibit intelligent action. May also be defined as a subfield of computer science concerned with concepts and methods of symbolic inference by a computer and the symbolic representation of the knowledge to be used in making inferences.

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Synonyms

  • AI (artificial intelligence)
  • computational intelligence
  • computer learning
  • computer reasoning
  • deep learning
  • intelligent systems
  • machine intelligence
  • machine learning

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/203390

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