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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AI mean? 

• AI (noun)
  The noun AI has 4 senses:

1. an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders

2. the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively

3. a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot

4. the introduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by some means other than sexual intercourse

  Familiarity information: AI used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

AI; Army Intelligence

Hypernyms ("AI" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Holonyms ("AI" is a part of...):

Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; US Army; USA (the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare)

Holonyms ("AI" is a member of...):

IC; Intelligence Community; National Intelligence Community; United States Intelligence Community (a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

AI; artificial intelligence

Context example:

workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in computers and robots

Hypernyms ("AI" is a kind of...):

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "AI"):

machine translation; MT (the use of computers to translate from one language to another)

robotics (the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ai; Bradypus tridactylus; three-toed sloth

Hypernyms ("ai" is a kind of...):

sloth; tree sloth (any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits)

Holonyms ("ai" is a member of...):

Bradypus; genus Bradypus (type genus of the Bradypodidae: three-toed sloths)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The introduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by some means other than sexual intercourse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

AI; artificial insemination

Hypernyms ("AI" is a kind of...):

insemination (the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female)

 Context examples 

The AI learned using pathology images without diagnostic annotation from 11 million image patches.

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques has been rapidly advancing in recent years and has begun impacting our lives in various ways.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This artificial intelligence (AI) approach, called automated visual evaluation, has the potential to revolutionize cervical cancer screening, particularly in low-resource settings.

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

Adele came running to meet us in the hall, exclaiming—"Mesdames, vous etes servies!" adding, "J'ai bien faim, moi!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Ai! ai!" wailed Zilla. "Crafty and wise was he, and my first-born!"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The researchers developed a method for translating the features found by the AI—only numbers initially—into high-resolution images that can be understood by humans.

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Although AI processes information in a manner similar to the human brain, the mechanisms by which human brains operate are still largely unknown.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

J'ai dit qu'oui: car c'est vrai, n'est-ce pas, mademoiselle?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Ai! ai!" wailed Zilla.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The group found that the features discovered by the AI were more accurate (AUC=0.820) than predictions made based on the human-established cancer criteria developed by pathologists, the Gleason score (AUC=0.744).

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)