This document provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI). It defines AI as making intelligent machines, especially computer programs, and examines key AI methods like knowledge-based systems, neural networks, and fuzzy systems. The history section notes that AI research began in 1956 with goals to simulate human intelligence, and that early failures led to more realistic goals around expert systems in the 1960s-70s and a renewed interest in neural networks in the late 1980s-1990s.