What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence by software-coded heuristics. Nowadays this code is prevalent in everything from cloud-based, enterprise applications to consumer apps and even embedded firmware. Artificial intelligence ( AI ) eiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines , as opposed to intelligence displayed by non-human animals or by humans . Example tasks in which this is done include speech recognition, computer vision, translation between (natural) languages, as well as other mappings of inputs. AI applications include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search ), recommendation systems (used by YouTube , Amazon , and Netflix ), understanding human speech (such as Siri and Alexa ), self-driving cars (e.g., Waymo ), genera...