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Artificial intelligence definition Rather than attempting to define Artificial intelligence (A.I.) as a single and consolidated discipline it might be better to consider as a set of different technologies that are easier to define individually. This set can include data mining, question answering, self-aware systems, pattern recognition, knowledge representation, automatic reasoning, deep learning, expert systems, information extraction, text mining, natural language processing, problem solving, intelligent agents, logic programming, machine learning, artificial neural networks, artificial vision, computational discovery, computational creativity. Therefore artificial "Self-aware" or "conscious" systems are the products of one of these technologies. Some history of relevant work of mine I have published a number of papers starting in 1970 based on software systems that were implemented by my group that solved problems of "Natural Language Processing" and particularly in the sub-area of "Natural Language Question-Answering". I made my first steps in the Machine Consciousness field by publishing a paper [1] in 1992, in which the implementation of a self-reporting question-answering system that automatically generates explanations of its reasoning was described. I followed this line of research for more than twenty years as documented at my published papers.