This document provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including its history, current status, goals, applications, advantages, disadvantages, and future scope. It discusses how AI has progressed from early concepts in the 1950s to current applications in fields like aviation, education, healthcare, and finance. The document outlines challenges in knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. It also examines different approaches to AI like cybernetics, cognitive simulation, and neural networks. The conclusion reflects on both positive potential and ethical issues regarding how AI may continue developing capabilities that rival human intelligence over the next decade.