To kick-off the “Fall into AI,” CITL’s Przemek Bosak will peek under the hood of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as its subset and most popular modern exponent of it, Machine Learning (ML). The presentation will briefly trace the origins of AI, and the role the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has played in the shaping of present-day AI.The following foundational questions will be addressed: How does AI work? How does it know what it knows? What does it do well? What are the processes behind it? The presentation will conclude with a short, speculative overview of the future of Artificial Intelligence.