AI has many applications:

• Healthcare
  • Social robots, medical diagnosis
• Mobility
  • Automated vehicles, airplanes
• Retail
  • Chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT), virtual assistants, recommender systems
• Agriculture
  • Soil and crop monitoring, precision farming
• Banking
  • Fraud detection, scan, and process documents
• Etc.

Computational Intelligence (CI) is a field in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

What is AI?

Multiple definitions of what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is:

• John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defines it as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”.
• Negnevitsky (2005): “Make machines do things that would require intelligence if done by humans.”
• Russell and Norvig (1995): “AI attempts to understand intelligent entities. […] AI strives to build intelligent entities as well as understand them.”

We also need to define what intelligence is:

Intelligence definitions from AI researchers:

Why do we care about AI?

• Curiosity: It could help us understand…
  • How the brain works…
  • What intelligence is.