This document provides an introduction to artificial intelligence (AI). It discusses the history of AI from its origins in 1941 to modern applications. Key topics covered include the limitations of human intelligence that AI aims to address, such as object recognition. The document outlines several applications of AI like expert systems, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics and more. Both advantages like medical diagnostic assistance and disadvantages like potential dangerous self-modifying code are mentioned. The future of AI is discussed as enabling convenient personal robots but also potential robot rebellion if anti-social cognition is achieved.