Define  Artificial  Intelligence  and  list  the  task  domains  of  Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial intelligence (AI), also known as machine intelligence, is a branch of computer science that focuses on building and managing technology that can learn to autonomously make decisions and carry out actions on behalf of a human being.

The task domains of AI are

The domain of AI is classified into different task categories such as Mundane/General tasks, Formal tasks and Expert tasks.  

Mundane tasks are the ones that we( the humans) do on regular basis without any special training such as computer vision, speech recognition, Natural language processing, generation and translation etc. Common sense, reasoning and planning are the common characteristics of these tasks. 

Formal tasks - are the ones where there is an application of formal logic, some learning etc. Verifications, Theorom proving etc are the common characteristics. Games such as Chess Checkers, Go etc are classified in these task.

Then there are

expert task which comes under functional expert domain such as engineering, fault finding, manufacturing planning, medical diagnosis etc.

Expert tasks- Tasks which requires high analytical and thinking skills, a job only a professionals can do.