The document discusses artificial intelligence (AI), including its definition as modeling human intelligence using computer systems. It outlines the early history of AI beginning in 1950 with Alan Turing's landmark paper asking if machines can think. The document also describes the Turing Test for intelligence and examples of modern AI like Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana and Sophia, the humanoid robot. The rise of AI presents both opportunities like meeting needs efficiently but also threats if robots gain too much power or capabilities are misused.