AI GLOSSARY · AI BASICS
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Computer systems that perform tasks we associate with human thinking, such as understanding language, recognising images or making predictions.
Example
A phone keyboard suggesting your next word uses a small AI model.
Learn it by doing
Reading a definition is a start; using the idea makes it stick.
Related terms
AI BASICSMachine learningA way of building AI where the system learns patterns from examples instead of following hand-written rules.AI BASICSDeep learningMachine learning using neural networks with many layers, which can learn complex patterns in text, images and sound.AI BASICSNeural networkA model made of layers of simple connected units whose connection strengths (weights) are adjusted during training.AI BASICSGenerative AIAI that creates new content — text, images, audio, video or code — based on patterns learned from training data.