What is AI?
Welcome! You already use AI every day, often without knowing it. This lesson explains what AI really is, what it is not, and where it came from. You need no maths and no code.
New words
- AI (artificial intelligence)
- Computers doing jobs that usually need human intelligence, like seeing or understanding language.
- Pattern
- Something that repeats, like the same tricks used in many spam emails.
- Fixed script
- A list of steps a person wrote in advance and the machine always repeats.
- Narrow AI
- AI built to do one kind of job, such as chess or translation.
- General AI
- An imagined machine that can do any job a person can do.
- Generative AI
- AI that creates new text, pictures or music, such as ChatGPT.
What you will learn
- You already use AI every day
- So what is AI?
- Try it: AI or not AI?
- AI does not think like you do
- Narrow AI and the AI in films
- A quick history in five steps
- Where you see it every day
- Explain it to a friend
- Key takeaways
10 quiz questions at the end.
The full lesson, with interactive demos and the quiz, opens after you sign in with Google. It is free.