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Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is the concept that it is possible
for a machine to "think". I say "think" (in
speech marks) because it is debatable whether it is possible for
a computer to think in the same sense as humans do.
The two main
varieties of AI are called "strong" and "weak".
Strong AI argues that it is possible that one day a computer will
be invented which can be called a mind in the fullest sense of the
word. In other words, it can think, reason, imagine, etc., and do
all the things that we currently associate with the human brain.
Weak AI, on the other hand, argues that computers can only appear
to think and are not actually conscious in the same way as human
brains are.
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