What is artificial intelligence?
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents"[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." (Wikipedia, a.o. 04-12-12)
Neural networks (or connectionist models or backpropagation models/networks) are computer simulations of neurons in the human brain. This can mean a group of neurons of about 100 neurons up to millions of neurons. The models are not complete representations of the neurons found in the human body, but simplified and math-constrained concepts of those. Neural networks are used to discover more about the inner workings of the human brain and most often in case of memory/learning simulations. A good book to learn about these is Connectionism and the Mind. However some knowledge about the brain is necessary.
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