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  AI

  noun

  artificial intelligence:
• ai
  ai

  noun

  a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.

AI

¹ American  

[ay-ahy] / ˈeɪˈaɪ /

Or A.I.

noun

1. artificial intelligence:

   1. the ability of a computer, robot, programmed device, or software application to perform operations and tasks analogous to human learning and decision making, such as recognizing speech and answering questions.

      The researchers used AI to detect patterns in patients' health data.

   2. a computer, robot, programmed device, or software application able to perform operations and tasks analogous to human learning and decision making, such as recognizing speech and answering questions.

      Help train an AI in London that needs your help in understanding the world.

   3. the branch of computer science involved with the design of computers, robots, programmed devices, and software applications able to perform operations and tasks analogous to human learning and decision making.

      Many of our students have gone on to produce important, high-profile research in AI.

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adjective

1. relating to or produced with the aid of a computer, robot, programmed device, or software application able to perform operations and tasks analogous to human learning and decision making.

   Growing demand for AI engineers requires more training programs.

   Fully integrating AI output into our work poses numerous challenges, despite the labor it promises to eventually save.

AI ² American  

Or A.I.

abbreviation

1. Amnesty International.

2. army intelligence.

3. artificial insemination.

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ai ³ American  

[ah-ee] / ˈɑ i /

noun

• ais
  plural

1. a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.

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ai ⁴ American  

[ahy] / aɪ /

interjection

1. (used as an utterance of pity, pain, anguish, etc.)

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AI ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. artificial insemination

2. artificial intelligence

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ai ² British  

abbreviation

1. Anguilla

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ai ³ British  

/ ˈɑːɪ /

noun

1. the three-toed sloth See sloth

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AI Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of artificial insemination

2. Abbreviation of artificial intelligence

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ais
  plural

Etymology

Origin of AI¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Origin of ai³

First recorded in 1685–95; from Portuguese aí, from Tupi a'í, probably of imitative origin

Example Sentences

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AI ai ais

The acquisition aims to create one of the largest industrial-software portfolios at a time when the rise of AI is reshaping customer needs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The company was also establishing a local taskforce in Australia to investigate "how to better manage the risks associated with increasingly capable AI".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

But studies show AI text detectors are often unreliable, generating false positives that can erode trust between instructors and students and forcing teachers to devise innovative methods to detect cheating and evaluate assignments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Schneider Electric, the maker of electrical equipment that has thrived from the AI build-out, on Monday struck a $23 billion deal to buy an industrial-design software company at a bargain-basement valuation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Noah Goodman is a professor of psychology and computer science at Stanford University and co-founder of the startup humans& ai.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

“Even without all the ai slop this ad feels incredibly odd,” said one comment on the commercial posted on YouTube.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

"I feel sad, I miss an ai," one user posted.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2023

Then, v = ai + bj is a scalar multiple of by real numbers See Example 10 and Example 11.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015

The diphthongs ai and au are pronounced severally like i in rise and ou in our.

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa

When Andrew Carnegie put up the first $1,000,000 to start a school in Pittsburgh, ais objective was on the modest side.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as I was about to take a delicious forkful of egg, Major Mar ais said, “No, Mandela, that is against the orders of your physician,” and he reached over to take the tray.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

At times was heard a kind of long, plaintive cry, that Harris attributed to some of those large tardi-grades, habitual denizens of those vast wooded regions, named "ais."

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne

Footnote 14: Some formula such as ais esse meum.

From Apocolocyntosis by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One evening, when she was to come out as Phedra he led me to the stage of the Th atre Fran ais.

From True Story of My Life by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt

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