This document provides an overview of an introductory course on artificial intelligence. It discusses four views of AI: thinking humanly, thinking rationally, acting humanly, and acting rationally. The textbook advocates the view of "acting rationally" by designing agents that maximize goal achievement given available information. A brief history of AI is also provided, from early work in philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences to landmark developments like Turing's 1950 paper posing the question "Can machines think?". The state of the art in AI is summarized with examples like Deep Blue defeating Kasparov at chess in 1997 and autonomous vehicles driving 98% of the time across the US.