Artificial intelligence (AI)

The field of building computer systems that perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognising images or making decisions.

Modern AI is dominated by machine learning: instead of being programmed with rules, systems learn patterns from data. The term covers everything from spam filters to the large language models behind today's chat assistants.

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Intelligence artificielle (IA) Français
الذكاء الاصطناعي العربية

Related terms

Machine learningA branch of AI in which systems learn to perform a task from examples and data rather than from explicitly written rules.
Generative AIAI that creates new content, such as text, images, audio, video or code, rather than only classifying or predicting.
Large language model (LLM)A neural network trained on very large amounts of text to predict the next token, which lets it write, answer questions, summarise, translate and code.

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What does Artificial intelligence (AI) mean?

The field of building computer systems that perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognising images or making decisions. Modern AI is dominated by machine learning: instead of being programmed with rules, systems learn patterns from data. The term covers everything from spam filters to the large language models behind today's chat assistants.