This document provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including definitions, a brief history, current applications, challenges, and the future of AI. It discusses early pioneers in AI like Alan Turing and John McCarthy and how AI has progressed from theoretical discussions to applications in digital assistants, games, robotics, and more through advances in deep learning. Both pros and cons of AI are presented, with the future of AI predicted to include self-driving cars, improved healthcare, and space exploration. The document concludes that AI aims to create machine intelligence through studying and designing intelligent agents.