What AI actually is
Artificial intelligence is a broad label for computer systems that do tasks we used to think needed human judgement: recognising faces, translating, recommending, writing. Most modern AI is machine learning — instead of being given rules, the system finds patterns in huge numbers of examples. A spam filter, a map app guessing traffic and a chatbot are all AI, but they are very different tools.
Try it: List three apps on your phone that probably use AI. What is each one predicting?
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