Ordinary software follows fixed rules written by a person: a calculator always adds the same way. AI is different. It learns from many examples, so it can handle things nobody wrote a rule for, like understanding a spoken question.
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A calculator adding two numbers
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Email moving spam to a spam folder
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- AI
- Software that learns patterns from examples to make predictions.
- Chatbot
- An AI you talk to by typing or speaking.
- Prompt
- The question or instruction you give an AI.
- Generative AI
- AI that creates new text, images, audio or video.