Introduction: What Are the Goals of AI Research?

Debates rage about the AI goals, with two primary camps. One sees the goal of AI research as long-term curiosity-driven research to understand how computational agents, humans or machines, perceive, decide, and act in the real world. They do their work by building programs that perform well in laboratory studies on specified tasks. The second camp of AI researchers is devoted to creating successful products and services by using many forms of algorithms, especially machine and deep learning. They are devoted to mission-oriented tasks that could be widely deployed.