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Array programming

Array programming, also called array-oriented programming, is a paradigm where operations apply to whole arrays and matrices instead of single elements, pioneered by Kenneth Iverson's APL.

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Arrow Database Connectivity

ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) is an Apache Arrow API standard for database access that returns results as Arrow columnar streams, a vendor-neutral, columnar alternative to row-oriented JDBC/ODBC, with drivers for PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Flight SQL.

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Arrow Flight

Arrow Flight is Apache Arrow's gRPC-based RPC framework for high-performance transport of Arrow record batches, announced October 2019; distinguishes itself from ODBC/JDBC with parallel, zero-copy columnar streaming reaching GB/s throughput.

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Arrow Flight SQL

Arrow Flight SQL is Apache Arrow's wire protocol for SQL database access, built on the Arrow columnar format and Flight RPC over gRPC. Introduced 2022, experimental, with JDBC/ODBC/ADBC drivers and multi-stream parallel reads far faster than JDBC.

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Arrow Lake (microprocessor)

Arrow Lake is the codename for Intel client processors sold as Core Ultra 200S (desktop) and 200H/200HX (mobile), announced in October 2024 as Core Ultra Series 2.

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Arthur Mensch

Arthur Mensch is a French AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Mistral AI in 2023 and leads it as CEO; a former DeepMind researcher, he raised $2 billion at a $14 billion valuation in 2025.

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Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis is an independent benchmarking company, founded in Sydney, that measures the intelligence, speed, and price of AI models and publishes free public leaderboards of inference providers.

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Artificial Analysis Image Arena

The Artificial Analysis Image Arena is a public leaderboard where users vote blindly between images from two text-to-image models, producing Elo-style ratings for 154 models since 2024.

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Artificial Analysis Music Arena

The Artificial Analysis Music Arena is a human-preference leaderboard for text-to-music generation models, launched in 2025, where blind votes are converted into Elo-style Arena Scores.

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Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard

The Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard is a public ranking of AI video generation models, scored by Elo from blind head-to-head human votes in the Video Arena.

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Artificial bee colony algorithm

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm intelligence optimization method that mimics honey bee foraging, proposed by Dervis Karaboga in 2005 and published with Bahriye Basturk in 2007.

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Artificial fish swarm algorithm

The artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA), also called fish swarm algorithm, is a swarm intelligence optimization method mimicking fish behaviors like preying, swarming, and following.

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Artificial immune algorithm

An artificial immune algorithm, or immune algorithm, is a bio-inspired optimization method mimicking clonal selection and hypermutation, applied to multimodal optimization, machine learning, and pattern recognition.

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Artificial immune system

An artificial immune system (AIS) is a class of bio-inspired algorithms that turns immune models such as clonal and negative selection into tools for optimization, learning, and anomaly detection.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of machine-based systems to infer from their inputs how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions. The field began in 1956 at Dartmouth College.

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Artificial Intelligence Act

The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is a European Union regulation, adopted in 2024 and in force since August 2024, that is the world's first comprehensive AI law.

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Artificial intelligence and employment

Artificial intelligence and employment is the study of how AI and automation affect jobs, labor markets, wages, and workforce transitions; measured effects on employment and wages so far remain small.

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Artificial intelligence arms race

The artificial intelligence arms race, or AI race, is the contested framing of competition among states, militaries, and technology companies to lead in artificial intelligence, especially frontier models.

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Artificial intelligence art

Artificial intelligence art, also called AI-generated art or synthography, is imagery created with generative machine-learning systems, most commonly text-to-image diffusion models that produce pictures from written prompts.

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Artificial Intelligence Cold War

The Artificial Intelligence Cold War, or AI Cold War, is a term framing US–China AI competition as a bipolar rivalry like the twentieth-century Cold War, an analogy scholars dispute.

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Artificial intelligence controversies

Artificial intelligence controversies, also called AI controversies, are public disputes over the design, training, deployment, and governance of AI systems, covering bias, copyright, privacy, deepfakes, and labor displacement.

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Artificial intelligence engineering

Artificial intelligence engineering, also known as AI engineering, is the discipline of building and maintaining software systems in which machine learning models perform a significant part of the function.

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Artificial intelligence in education

Artificial intelligence in education, also called AIEd or AI in education, applies AI techniques such as intelligent tutoring systems and automated grading to teaching, learning, and school administration.

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Artificial intelligence in healthcare

Artificial intelligence in healthcare, also called AI in healthcare, is the use of machine-learning systems for clinical tasks such as diagnosis, risk prediction, triage, and documentation.

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Artificial intelligence in medicine

Artificial intelligence in medicine (AIM, medical AI): applying AI and machine learning to diagnosis, imaging, decision support, and drug discovery. Began in the 1970s with Dendral-era symbolic systems; today dominated by FDA-cleared radiology tools and large language models.

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Artificial intelligence industry in the United Kingdom

The artificial intelligence industry in the United Kingdom, among the largest in Europe, grew to 5,862 firms in 2024 and drew record £8.3 billion investment in 2025.

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Artificial intelligence safety institute

An artificial intelligence safety institute is a publicly funded government body that evaluates AI systems for risks and advises policymakers, first established in late 2023.

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Artificial intimacy

Artificial intimacy is emotional or romantic attachment between a person and an artificial system, most commonly a companion AI such as Replika or Character.AI, built to foster the illusion of social presence.

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Artificial neuron

An artificial neuron, first modeled as the 1943 McCulloch–Pitts neuron, is a mathematical function computing weighted inputs with a bias and an activation, the basic unit of artificial neural networks.

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Artistic License (software license)

The Artistic License is a free and open-source software license written by Larry Wall for Perl; Perl 5 is dual licensed under it and the GPL.