The object of research in artificial intelligence (AI) is to discover how to program a computer to perform the remarkable functions that make up human intelligence. This work leads not only to increasing use of computers, but also to an enhanced understanding of human cognitive processes which constitute what we mean by ‘intelligence’, and the mechanisms that are required to produce it. What is needed is a deeper understanding of human intelligence and the human mind. In the first section, we will focus on the various definitions of artificial intelligence, and organize it into the four categories which are, systems that think like humans, systems that act like humans, systems that think rationally and systems that act rationally. In the second and third sections, we will explore the field of AI, and the issue of what computers can do, respectively. In the fourth section, we will argue for the computational model of mind. The basic tenet of this thesis is that the brain is just a digital computer and that the mind is a software program. In the fifth section, we will focus on the relation between AI and the functional theory of mind. In the sixth, we will focus on the creativity aspects of artificial intelligence. In seventh and last sections, we will focus the place mind in artificial intelligence and the reductive nature of artificial intelligence in explaining mind.