This document provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) including its history, goals, and current applications. It discusses the fields of intelligence and AI, defining the latter as focusing on creating machines that exhibit human behaviors like learning and reasoning. The brief history outlines early work in AI from 1943 to the 1990s and present. Current cool areas that AI is being applied to are then summarized as robotics, machine learning, language systems, speech recognition, and vision systems.