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AI BASICS
t is AI ?
Ho we go he e: fr m si ple co e
to co plex de ision-making.
Y You might have no-
ticed that AI seems,
o a ,
be everywhere. In school,
you might be using Chat-
o - t r p paper, Grammarly to check
r Khanmigo to understand
polynomials. Siri or Alexa
could be finding you funny
memes, telling you the
weather for tomorrow, or
testing your knowledge of
pop music from the 2010’s.
be tion aids, shopping web-
, a apps, AI is guiding you —
o — in decisions of all kinds
about where you go, how
you spend money, what you
wear, and much else. Let’s
explore how AI got started
and how it works.
In the Beginning
AI was created by experts
e, th ematics, and even psychol-
ogy, among other fields.
ho brains learn things and
make decisions. They used
this understanding to create
mathematical models that
mimic these processes.
Next, computer program-
c these models. This code al-
lows machines to process
large amounts of data, rec-
ognize patterns, and make
predictions or decisions
based on those patterns.
This is the essence of ma-
,
y part of AI.
All About the Data
But it’s really all about the
lear from, or get “trained” on,
data. The more data used
e s e
m queries or making deci-
sions. Over time, as more
data is collected and tech-
nology improves, AI sys-
tems become more sophis-
oi more complex tasks.
world, like speech or writ-
2. Reasons. Then it reasons
s
in out what to do with the new
s mo ns
in sense things — it can also
t
t The Four Jobs of AI
AI works by doing four main
s,
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w o g g senses is the beginning of
math problem, or producing
what makes AI work. Once
g
w sons, learns, and interacts.
s
o the data the AI was trained
s
o on. Importantly, AI can rea-
1. Perceives. AI uses sen-
te to other “it’s” of the same
son only according to how it
i has been programmed and
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