Alan Turing , published his work, (computer machinery and intelligence) , which eventually, became , the turing test , which experts , used to measure computer intelligence, the term artificial intelligence, was coined, and came into popular use

Investment and interest ,in AI boomed , in the first decades of the 21st century, when machine learning, was successfully, applied to many problems in academia, and industry, due to new methods, the application of powerful computer hardware, and the collection of immense data sets

AI applications , include , advanced web search engines , recommended systems , ( used by Netflix, YouTube etc) , understanding human speech , (such as Siri and Alexa) , self driving cars (e.g Waymo ) generative or creative tools , ( chatgpt, and AI)