AI most frequently refers to

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

, which is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Ai, AI or A.I. may also refer to:

Animals

* Ai (chimpanzee), an individual experimental subject in Japan * Ai (sloth) or the pale-throated sloth, a northern Amazonian mammal species

Arts, entertainment and media

Works

* ''Ai'' (album), a 2004 release by Seraphim * "A.I." (song), by OneRepublic, 2016 * ''

A.I. Artificial Intelligence ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence'' (or simply ''A.I.'') is a 2001 American science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay by Spielberg and screen story by Ian Watson are loosely based on the 1969 short story " Supertoy ...

'', a 2001 American film * '' A.I. Rising'', a 2018 Serbian film * '' AI: The Somnium Files'', a 2019 video game * ''

American Idol ''American Idol'' is an American Music competition, singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by Fremantle (company), Fremantle North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by Fremantle North America. It a ...

'', a televised singing contest * ''

The American Interest ''The American Interest'' (''AI'') was a bimonthly magazine founded in 2005, focusing primarily on foreign policy, international affairs, global economics, and military matters. History The magazine was founded in 2005 by a number of member ...

'', a bimonthly magazine (2005–2020) * ''I'' (2015 film), an Indian Tamil film (initial title: ''Ai'')

Other uses in arts and media

* A.i. (band), a Californian rock–electroclash group * All in (poker), wagering one's entire stake * Appreciation Index, a British measure of broadcast programme approval *

Non-player character A non-player character (NPC) is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player. The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster (or referee) rather than by a ...

, in gaming (colloquially, ''an AI'')

Business

* (''a.i.''), a phrase in job titles *

Appreciative inquiry Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a model that seeks to engage stakeholders in self-determined change. According to Gervase Bushe, professor of leadership and organization development at the Beedie School of Business and a researcher on the topic, "A ...

, an organizational development method *

All-inclusive An all-inclusive resort is a holiday resort that generally includes, in the price of booking a stay, lodging, unlimited food and drinks, entertainment, and other recreational activities. They are often located in warmer regions of the world, parti ...

, a full service at a vacation resort including meals and drinks

Organizations and businesses

Arts businesses and organizations

Adventure International Adventure International was an American video game publisher, video game publishing company that existed from 1979 until 1986. It was started by Scott Adams (game designer), Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first i ...

, a video game publisher *

The Art Institutes The Art Institutes (AI) were a private for-profit system of art schools in the United States. The Art Institutes offered programs at the certificate, associate's, bachelors, and master's levels. By 2012, there were 50 campuses with roughly ...

, a former chain of American art schools

Transport businesses

Air India Air India is the flag carrier of India with its main hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, and secondary hubs at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, alo ...

, the flag carrier airline of India *

Alitalia Alitalia - Società Aerea Italiana S.p.A., operating as Alitalia (), was an Italian airline which was once the flag carrier and largest airline of Italy. The company had its head office in Fiumicino, in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. ...

, the former flag carrier airline of Italy *

Astra International Astra International, Tbk. is an Indonesian conglomerate controlled by Jardine Cycle & Carriage. It was founded in 1957 by Tjia Kian Tie, Liem Pen Hong with the name of PT Astra International Incorporated. It is Southeast Asia's largest independ ...

, an Indonesian automotive company

Other businesses and organizations

Accuracy International Accuracy International is a British firearms manufacturer based in Portsmouth, England. The company specializes in sniper rifles, anti-materiel rifles and civilian competition rifles. The company was founded in 1978 by a group of individual ...

, a firearms manufacturer * Alexis I. duPont High School, Delaware, U.S. *

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...

, a human rights organisation *

Appraisal Institute The Appraisal Institute (AI), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is an international association of professional real estate appraisers. It was founded in January 1991 when the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (AIREA) and the Society ...

, an association of real estate appraisers

People

Ai (surname) Ai is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname . It is listed 334th in the Song dynasty Chinese classics, classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 215th most common surname in Taiwan, shared by 400,000 ...

, a Chinese surname *

Ai (given name) Ai is a Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese given name. In Japanese, it is almost always used as a feminine Japanese given name, written as あい in hiragana, アイ in katakana, 愛, 藍 or 亜衣 in kanji. It could mean love, affection (愛), ...

, a given name and list of people and characters with the name *

King Ai of Zhou King Ai of Zhou () personal name Ji Quji, was a king of China's Zhou dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ) was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest span of any dynasty in Chinese history. During th ...

(died 441 BC) *

Emperor Ai of Han Emperor Ai of Han, personal name Liu Xin (劉欣; 25 BC – 15 August 1 BC), was an emperor of China's Han dynasty. He ascended the throne when he was 20, having been made heir by his childless uncle Emperor Cheng, and he reigned from 7 to 1 BC ...

(27–1 BC) *

Emperor Ai of Jin Emperor Ai of Jin (; 341 – March 30, 365), personal name Sima Pi (), courtesy name Qianling (), was an emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. During his brief reign, the actual powers were largely in the hands of his granduncle Sima Yu the Princ ...

(341–365) *

Emperor Ai of Tang Emperor Ai of Tang (27 October 89226 March 908), also known as Emperor Zhaoxuan of Tang (), born Li Zuo, later known as Li Chu (), was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty of China. He reigned—as a puppet ruler—from 904 to 907. Emperor Ai ...

(892–908) *

Ai (poet) Florence Ai Ogawa (born Florence Anthony; October 21, 1947 – March 20, 2010)"Ai." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Biography In Context. Web. Retrieved 2011-03-26."Ai." Contemporary Women Poets. Gale, 1998. Gale Biography ...

(1947–2010), American poet *

Ai (singer) , known mononymously as Ai (, stylized as AI or A.I. ), is a Japanese-American singer, songwriter and rapper. Born in Los Angeles, Ai moved to Kagoshima at age four. Motivated to become a singer, she returned to Los Angeles during her adolesce ...

(born 1981), Japanese-American singer and songwriter *

Allen Iverson Allen Ezail Iverson ( ; born June 7, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "The Answer", he played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as both a shooting guard and point guard. As an NBA rook ...

(born 1975), American retired professional basketball player ("A.I.") *

Andre Iguodala Andre Tyler Iguodala ( ; born January 28, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player who played for 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The swingman was an NBA All-Star in 2012 and was named to the NBA All ...

(born 1984), American professional basketball player ("A.I. 2.0")

Places

Areas

Anguilla Anguilla is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Sa ...

, a Caribbean territory (by ISO 3166-1 code) *

Appenzell Innerrhoden Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden ( ; ; ; ), in English sometimes Appenzell Inner-Rhodes, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts. The seat of the government and parliament is Appenzell. It is ...

, a Swiss canton *

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

(by LOC MARC code)

Cities

Ai (Canaan) The Ai (; Douay–Rheims: Hai) was a city in Canaan, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Book of Joshua, it was conquered by the Israelites, headed by Joshua, during their conquest of Canaan. The Ai's ruins are commonly thought to be ...

, Biblical city

United States

* Ai, Alabama * Ai, Georgia * Ai, North Carolina * Ai, Ohio

Waterways

Religion, philosophy and mythology

* Ái, a Norse god *

, Biblical city * ''Ai'' ( zh, t=愛, p=ài, links=no), Sinic concepts of love from Confucianism and Buddhism * ', colloquially ', a Greek word for 'saint' * Ai Toyon, the Yakut god of light

Science and technology

Agricultural science

Active ingredient An active ingredient is any ingredient that provides biologically active or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or animals. ...

, part of a pesticide *

Artificial insemination of livestock and pets Artificial insemination is the deliberate introduction of sperm into a female's cervix or uterine cavity for the purpose of achieving a pregnancy through in vivo fertilization by means other than sexual intercourse. It is a fertility treatment ...

, in animal breeding

Air force and aviation

* Airborne Internet, a proposed air-to-air data network * Airborne Interception radar, a Royal Air Force air-to-air system *

Air interdiction Air interdiction (AI), also known as deep air support (DAS), is the use of preventive tactical bombing and strafing by combat aircraft against enemy targets that are not an immediate threat, to delay, disrupt or hinder later enemy engagement o ...

, an aerial military capability *

Attitude indicator The attitude indicator (AI), also known as the gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is a flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft Orientation (geometry), orientation relative to Earth's horizon, and gives an immediate indication of ...

, a flight instrument on aircraft

The Internet

* .ai, a top-level domain

Medical conditions

* Accommodative insufficiency of the eye *

Amelogenesis imperfecta Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a congenital disorder which presents with a rare abnormal formation of the Tooth enamel, enamel or external layer of the crown of teeth, unrelated to any systemic or generalized conditions. Enamel is composed mostly ...

of teeth *

Aortic insufficiency Aortic regurgitation (AR), also known as aortic insufficiency (AI), is the leaking of the aortic valve of the heart that causes blood to flow in the reverse direction during ventricular diastole, from the aorta into the left ventricle. As a conse ...

of the heart

Medicines and healthcare

, part of a drug *

Adequate intake The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is a system of nutrition recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the National Academies (United States). It was introduced in 1997 in order to broaden the existing guidelines known as Reco ...

, a Dietary Reference Intake nutritional parameter *

Aromatase inhibitor Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are a class of drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer in postmenopausal women and in men, and gynecomastia in men. They may also be used off-label to reduce estrogen conversion when supplementing testosterone exo ...

, a class of breast-cancer drug * Articulation Index, a method of measuring hearing loss *

Artificial insemination Artificial insemination is the deliberate introduction of sperm into a female's cervix or uterine cavity for the purpose of achieving a pregnancy through in vivo fertilization by means other than sexual intercourse. It is a fertility treatment ...

, a method of fertilisation * Automated immunoassay, automated clinical analyses of blood

Visual arts technologies

Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and Computer-aided design, design software developed and marketed by Adobe Inc., Adobe. Originally designed for the Apple Inc., Apple Mac (computer), Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began ...

, a vector graphics editor ** .ai,

Adobe Illustrator Artwork Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and Computer-aided design, design software developed and marketed by Adobe Inc., Adobe. Originally designed for the Apple Inc., Apple Mac (computer), Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began ...

filename extension * Automatic Maximum-Aperture Indexing, aperture coupling on Nikon camera lenses