artificial intelligence

field that develops and studies software enabling machines to exhibit intelligent behavior
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Summary

artificial intelligence is a type of technology[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of type of technology entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (432,604 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Influenced by: psychology[3], linguistics[4], philosophy[5]
  • Instance of: branch of computer science[6], type of intelligence[7]
  • Subclass of: computer science[8], emerging technology[9], reasoning[10]
  • Part of: computer science[11], mathematics[12]
  • Has use: search engine[13], recommender system[14], natural language understanding[15], autonomous car[16], automated decision-making[17]
  • Commons category: Artificial intelligence[18]
  • Has part(s): symbolic artificial intelligence[19], connectionism[20], ethical artificial intelligence[21], machine learning[22]
  • Significant event: Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6[23], AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol[24], Dartmouth workshop[25]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Artificial intelligence[26]
  • Described at URL: https://eudml.org/subject/MSC/68Txx[27], https://searchenterpriseai.techtarget.com/definition/AI-Artificial-Intelligence[28]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Artificial intelligence[29]
  • Facet of: computer science[30], cognitive science[31]
  • Described by source: Open Science Thesaurus[32], Artificial Intelligence[33], Artificial Intelligence Review[34], Red Blue Translator[35]
  • Topic has template: Template:Artificial intelligence[36], Template:Artificial intelligence navbox[37]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/artificial-intelligence[38], https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/tags/artificial-intelligence[39]
  • Has characteristic: regulation of artificial intelligence[40], artificiality[41]
  • Short name: AI[42], IA[43], KI[44]

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Influence

Things named for artificial intelligence include OpenAI[45], an enterprise[46], in United States[47], founded in 2015[48], headquartered in San Francisco[49]; Mistral AI[50], a software company[51], in France[52], founded in 2023[53], headquartered in Paris[54]; AI boom[55], a historical period[56]; AI takeover[57], a science fiction genre[58]; AI winter[59]; Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence[60], a publishing house[61], in United States[62], founded in 1979[63], headquartered in Palo Alto[64]; AI Novelist[65], a language model[66], in Japan[67]; and GeoAI[68], a geospatial industry[69].

Why It Matters

artificial intelligence has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[70] It is known by 134 alternative names across languages and contexts.[71]

Entities named for it include OpenAI[45], an enterprise[46], in United States[47], founded in 2015[48], headquartered in San Francisco[49]; Mistral AI[50], a software company[51], in France[52], founded in 2023[53], headquartered in Paris[54]; AI boom[55], a historical period[56]; AI takeover[57], a science fiction genre[58]; AI winter[59]; and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence[60], a publishing house[61], in United States[62], founded in 1979[63], headquartered in Palo Alto[64].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [70] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [71] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-g7Nt-fRW8-gVaj, tg-2U8i-8VJg-KJgA
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  2. 14d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 214
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'a
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  3. 4w ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → i/inteligencia-artificial
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14483: i/inteligencia-artificial"
  4. 4w ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14829 → ai
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14829: ai"
  5. 6w ago · TTWIDEE · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Archive of our own tag → Artificial Intelligence
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Archive of our own tag: Artificial Intelligence"
  6. 8w ago · Piotr Osada · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basisklassifikation → 54.72
    National library of poland mms id → 9810637757705606
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of poland mms id: 9810637757705606"
  7. 11w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14717 → artificial intelligence
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14717: Q11660, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1785524324610"
  8. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2ss2wb
    P14483 → i/inteligencia-artificial
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  9. 14w ago · EleJur · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → i/inteligencia-artificial
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: i/inteligencia-artificial, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260063|batch #260063]]"
  10. 16w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → dirbtinis-intelektas
    Harper's tag → ai, artificial-intelligence
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: dirbtinis-intelektas"
  11. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ai, artificial-intelligence
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: ai, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289912046|ai (#289912046)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  12. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14544 → 3437
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  13. 17w ago · Antino Mizar · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → computer science, mathematics
    Wikidata description → field that develops and studies software enabling machines to exhibit intelligen
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Part of: mathematics"
  14. 18w ago · Beegies · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → K%C3%BCnstliche_Intelligenz
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  15. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000533-umela-inteligence
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  16. 18w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Foldoc id → artificial+intelligence, AI
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  17. 19w ago · 内存溢出的猫 · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Short name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'AI'}, {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'IA'}, {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'IA'} +59
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Short name: AI"
  18. 20w ago · Yupik · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ávvir topic id → koanstajierbmi, goanstajierbmi, dahkujierbmi
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  19. 21w ago · Flynn Peck · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb interest id → in0000158
    Short name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'AI'}, {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'IA'}, {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'IA'} +59
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  20. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → computer science, mathematics
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 2616, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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