[1-4] I have little/no background in CompSci/AI, can you tell me in detail how AI works?


No.  AI is a scientific and engineering discipline depending on
sophisticated Computer Science techniqes, mathematics, etc.  It also
is sub-divided into many distinct subfields.  At the International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2003, the program
committee divided the papers into nearly forty different topic areas.
It is not really practical to expect to understand the technical
details of AI from a USENET forum.

On the other hand, it is possible to get the general gist of the field
from several books.  If you have a computer science background, you
should investigate one of the texts listed in question [4-0].  If you
don't, then you may be interested in Raymond Kurzweil's "The Age of
Intelligent Machines".

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