Artificial Intelligence (AI) is any man-made machine that can process information and react to it in some productive way. John McCarthy, the brilliant computer and cognitive scientist, who coined the term in 1955, defined AI as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.”



There is of course, an increasingly blurred line between purely mechanical AI, and OI, organic intelligence. On one end of the spectrum, there is the computer, robot, cell phone, calculator, microwave and electronics and on the other, there is the human being, animal, plant or organic cell. But between the two spectrums, there is a growing fusion between the two, the development of implanted micro-machines for example, alleviating pain, vascular plaque, pacing the heart, regulating brainwaves, targeting cancer cells; a growing world of borgs, where both intelligences can serve each other, intertwining towards the great unknown.

