Story of Artificial Intelligence: research and publications behind

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now one of the most popular areas of Information technology (IT). While “a classical” problem solving is based on algorithm approach, AI offers systems which simulate human intelligence. Along with IT, AI has experienced extremely rapid development of tools, methods and applications. Nowadays AI is a buzz word, for some people a hope to solve their problems, for others a danger with negative impact on their life. AI, despite its current popularity, is nothing new. It has a long and rich history and a rich structure as well. In our paper we will show “what is behind” popularity of AI by bibliometric analysis of publications presented in SCOPUS up to the year 2019. We will show an evolution of structure of AI in particular periods of time, number of publications, the most active countries and research disciplines. We will present the results of keyword analysis using thematic maps to visualize main trends and topics of AI for each particular time period.