What feelings does the term artificial intelligence (AI) evoke in you? For some, a future without the use of artificially intelligent systems is no longer imaginable. In this world, artificial intelligence helps autonomous driving to make a breakthrough, reliably makes medical diagnoses and autonomous robots care for our elderly.

For many other people, these are precisely the worst imaginings of the future. They fear that artificial intelligence will make us humans superfluous, causing millions of unemployed and gaining power over us.

The following article addresses artificial intelligence from a neutral point of view. Artificial intelligence is not good or evil, but simply a technology that can be used to solve certain problems.

First, we consider the definition of AI and current fields of AI applications. After that, we discuss challenges and possible solutions when testing artificial intelligence systems. Read more