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Basic AI

Where everything starts

The handful of words behind every AI headline. Learn these and the rest of AI stops sounding like code.

8 terms

Artificial intelligence
Level 1
Software that performs tasks we normally think of as requiring human judgement.
Machine learning
Level 1
A way of building software that learns patterns from examples instead of being given rules.
Model
Level 1
The trained file that holds everything an AI system learned.
Training
Level 1
The process of showing a model huge amounts of data so it can learn patterns.
Algorithm
Level 1
A defined set of steps for solving a problem.
Neural network
Level 2
A model structure made of many simple layers, loosely inspired by the brain.
Inference
Level 2
The moment a trained model is actually used to produce an answer.
GPU
Level 2
A specialised chip that performs many calculations at the same time.