Re: Driving time from Dublin to Belfast Aug 5, 2007, 8:33 AM BrantCouple, this is a nice trip and as you drive along you will have the mountains of the Cooley peninsula on your right and hills on your left.
Automation or automatic control, is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching on tele phone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention.
On the other hand Artificial Intelligence is a science and engineering of making intelligent machines (according to John McCarthy, person who coined this term). AI is all about try to make machines or software mimic human behavior and intelligence. Automation can or can not be based on Artificial Intelligence. Automation can be provided by placing some sensors and making something do corresponding to sensor readings. If you want to make the same thing to be an AI, then you might need to do extra bit of work.