What is AI? The basics (1)

Help! Everyone is talking about AI, but what is it exactly?

AI stands for Artificial Intelligence.

That word 'intelligence' we know: people can be intelligent (or just not 😯). Artificial intelligence is therefore just like an artificial plant: intelligence, but artificially imitated in a computer. We are talking about computer systems that do tasks for which you normally need a human: learning, reasoning, understanding language.

Do you recognise this? You type a WhatsApp message and your phone already predicts which word you want to type. That is AI.

Or: you call customer service and a voice picks up that understands you. Also AI.

AI has been around longer. But since 2022 something has changed that affects your family too …

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