SynopsisDrawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of artificial intelligence., Artificial Intelligence is the proposition that human brains are nothing more than machines, albeit extremely complicated oned, whose abilities will someday be duplicatedand surpassedby computers. Such a goal may seem elusive now, but these essays present the wide spectrum of knowledge already compiled on the pursuit of this dream.