Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science dedicated to creating systems that can perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence. This encompasses a range of activities such as:

• Learning: AI systems can learn from data, improving their performance over time without being explicitly programmed for every scenario.
• Reasoning and Problem-Solving: They apply logical processes to analyze situations and make decisions.
• Perception: AI technologies interpret inputs from the environment, such as visual data (computer vision) or sound (speech recognition).
• Language Understanding: Through natural language processing (NLP), AI can understand and generate human language.

There are two primary types of AI:

• Narrow or Weak AI: Designed to handle a specific task (e.g., voice assistants, recommendation systems, and image recognition).
• General or Strong AI: Hypothetical systems that possess human-like intelligence and can perform any intellectual task that a human being can, a goal that remains largely theoretical today.

AI technologies are now widely used across various industries—from healthcare and finance to transportation and customer service—transforming how we interact with technology and process information.