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What Is Artificial Intelligence?

Understand AI, machine learning and why they are different.

Artificial intelligence is a broad field focused on building systems that can perform tasks associated with human intelligence, such as recognizing patterns, understanding language or making predictions.

How it works

  1. AI is the broad category.
  2. Machine learning is a common approach where systems learn patterns from data.
  3. Some AI systems generate text, images or other content.
  4. The quality of an AI system depends heavily on its design, data and evaluation.
Key takeaway: AI is an umbrella term. Machine learning is one important method used to build many modern AI systems.

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