AI in Libraries

Artificial Intelligence (AI) addresses a subset of problems that lend  themselves to solution by computers, computer programs or algorithms. Often the AI algorithms are coupled with the use of outside data. The  problems in question are ones that an ideally rational and intelligent human being would be able to solve, given the time, resources, and ingenuity. One of the first examples of an AI program within librarianship is that of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Patrons with poor vision might not be able to read all the books that a library contains.