Title:Quarterly Essay 11 Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to NationhoodFormat:Kobo ebookPublished:August 1, 2003Publisher:Schwartz Publishing Pty. LtdLanguage:English The understanding of artificial intelligence, especially in the general public, is influenced by the lack of knowledge of what is possible and what is not possible in artificial intelligence, which is further supported by the boundless imagination used in "Science Fiction". In order for artificial intelligence to be considered as a discipline, it is necessary to determine these limits and to eliminate (sometimes even magic-casting) conjectures. These limits are determined by the properties of the tools available to artificial intelligence. First, it is necessary to say what is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence consists in constructing and using models of human activity (processes) that are considered intelligent. This activity is generated by the structures of the human brain, the real world. Since its inception (from the mid-20 century), this modeling has taken two paths: