The term artificial intelligence might take you back to those sleepless nights when the T-800 from The Terminator haunted you like nothing before.

But in reality, we're far away from creating such intelligent and superior machines.

As a matter of fact, some AI experts feel we might never create machines that can outsmart us – at least not for a century or two.

If you're curious to know what is artificial intelligence and how it works to help us, keep reading to have your eyes opened to this incredible technology.