artificial intelligence n.

While the humans scurried in confusion, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) created by MIT/Bell Labs linked itself into the network of high-speed, twentieth generation computers placed at its disposal.

The ‘mortal engines’ [in the Stanislaw Lem collection Mortal Engines] refer to artificial intelligences which…must be regarded as conscious beings after a certain level of development is reached; to program them is slavery, to destroy them is murder.

Its science-fictional content is certainly cyber enough: artificial intelligences reaching for true sentience.

Deep Throat says the Defense Department is interested in Wilczek because he created artificial intelligence—‘a learning machine,’ that, he surmises, killed Drake as an act of self-preservation.

You cannot imagine what a handful of renegade artificial intelligences might do to the prospects of human progress.

‘So what are our other assets?’ Robin asked. ‘Miranda is in Val Verde right now, though it’s not easy to talk to her,’ I said. ‘Maybe we can count on her for something at some point.’ April added, ‘And we have an artificial intelligence that can inhabit a monkey. That has to count for something.’