AI field guide
BEGINNER · START HERE · 12 MIN

AI in everyday life

A practical foundation, without the jargon.

LESSON 1 / 4

What AI actually is

Artificial intelligence is a broad label for computer systems that perform tasks such as recognising speech, making predictions or generating text. Machine learning is one approach: instead of writing every rule by hand, developers train a model on examples. A chatbot is one kind of AI — not the whole field.

MAKE IT CONCRETE

Your spam filter classifies messages. A navigation app estimates traffic. A chatbot generates an answer. All can use AI, but they do different jobs.

Ask what the system does, not whether it is “intelligent.”

CHECK YOURSELF

Which is the best description of machine learning?