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ARE THEY TAKING OVER DO THEY EVER SMILE? OR, GET ANGRY "Expert systems, case-based reasoning, neural networks, and genetic logarithms represent an applied branch of the computer science field of artificial intelligence (AI)". According to Henry Lucas (2000 p. 595) As our world simultaneously shrinks and expands through the growing abilities and applications of computers in our everyday lives, it seems that the role of the computer has been reversed. Before we knew that the computer only understood what we programmed it to understand; however, now the majority of our society is learning more from computers than they are able to input into it. As stated, it only seems that the roles are being reversed, because somewhere far down at the beginning of the line someone is programming the computer. However, a transition is occurring among computer programmers, as they attempt to create machines that learn rather than machines that must be programmed. It has become the hope of many engineers that the "mechanisms of human thought could be precisely modeled and simulated on a computer". This is known as Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, since its conception, has grown from a dozen researchers, to thousands o