Artificial intelligence is a scientific field focused on creating systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. This includes, for example, speech and image recognition, natural language understanding, planning, learning, and decision-making. The goal of AI is to develop programs and algorithms that can analyze data, learn from it, and respond to new situations in a way similar to humans — and in some tasks, even surpass human abilities. Artificial intelligence finds applications in a wide range of fields —from smartphones and internet search engines, through industry and manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, biometric identification, adaptive learning systems, intelligent video games, monitoring of wild animals or agricultural crops, to medicine and finance.