What is artificial intelligence?
Prompt: closeup of a screen in front of a smiling woman that shows symbols, images, charts reflecting artificial intelligence
Imagine you have a clever computer friend who starts learning by asking broad questions and learns from your answers, getting better with each guess. It narrows down its choices until it's confident enough to make a guess. If it's right, hooray! If not, it learns from its mistake and tries again next time. AI learns from lots of examples and then uses that knowledge to make decisions about new things.
But just like with real friends you can play with, you need to make sure AI uses its smarts fairly and safely to help everyone!
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that deals with the creation of systems that can think and act for themselves, and who can learn and adapt to their environment.
One way to understand AI is to think about the way that humans learn. When we are young, we are exposed to a lot of information and data. For example, we see a lot of different objects, and we hear a lot of different words. We use this data to learn about the world around us.
As we get older, we can use the knowledge that we have learned to make predictions about new data. For example, if we see a new object, we can use our knowledge of other objects to predict what the new object is.
AI systems work in a similar way. They are exposed to a lot of data, and they use this data to learn about the world around them. Once they are trained, they can use their knowledge to make predictions about new data.
AI is a powerful tool that can be used to solve a wide range of problems, from game playing to medical diagnosis. AI systems are already being used in many different ways, and their use is only going to grow in the future.
