Artificial Intelligence
Also called: AI
Software that performs tasks we normally associate with human thinking — recognising, predicting, generating, deciding.
Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term for systems that take in data and produce useful outputs without being told, step by step, how to do it. It covers everything from a spam filter to a model that writes code. Most AI you use today is machine learning, and most of that is deep learning — so the three words often get used interchangeably even though they are nested, not identical.
In practice: When your email client sorts a message into Promotions without a human writing a rule for that exact message, that is AI.
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