What exactly is AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a general term frequently used to refer to various types of advanced computer systems. However, I prefer to focus more precisely on "machine learning." The majority of what we encounter in AI today is actually machine learning—giving computer systems the capability to learn from examples. Machines designed to learn from examples are referred to as "neural networks." A key method they use to learn involves being exposed to numerous examples, such as identifying the content of an image—a process known as classification. For instance, teaching a network to recognize an elephant requires a person to provide many examples of elephant images, and label them appropriately. Through this process, the model learns to differentiate an elephant from other elements in an image. Language models are another type of neural network. How do language models work? Language models basically predict what word comes next in a sequence of words. We train t...