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Artificial Intelligence : Home

This guide provides an overview of this evolving field, its applications in library databases and teaching, along with insights on AI ethics and tools.

Artificial Intelligence @ AUB

The Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Computing (AI-DSC) Hub was launched in 2021 and consists of a portal website, an infrastructure that unifies AUB research efforts and education programs towards advancing the fields of AI, data science, and computing from Lebanon to the middle east and the world.

What is Artificial Intelligence?
According to Encyclopedia Britannica "Artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks that are commonly associated with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason. Although there are as yet no AIs that match full human flexibility over wider domains or in tasks requiring much everyday knowledge, some AIs perform specific tasks as well as humans" ... more

Additional Definitions

Artificial Intelligence is a particular computer system or machine that has some of the  qualities that the human brain has, such as the ability to interpret and produce language in a way that seems human, recognize or create images, solve problems, and learn from data supplied  to it.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a research field within computer sciences that concentrates on developing human-like machine intelligence. AI was initiated as a research field in 1956 by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester... Ramos-Martín, J., & Barreneche.

Artificial intelligence is the capability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn and take actions without being explicitly encoded with commands. AI can be thought of as the development of computer systems that can perform tasks autonomously, ingesting and analyzing enormous volumes of data, then recognizing patterns in that data... more

Artificial Intelligence Concepts

To understand the different types of applications that fall under Artificial Intelligence, refer to this tree that represents some, but not all, of the relationships between different applications and AI.