AI glossary / The basics
Artificial intelligence
Computer systems that do things we'd normally say need human thinking: understanding language, spotting patterns, making decisions.
More words in The basics
- ChatbotA program you talk to in everyday language by typing or speaking, and it replies.
- Computer visionAI that understands images and video, such as recognising faces, reading number plates or spotting problems on a scan.
- Deep learningA powerful kind of machine learning that uses many-layered neural networks. It's behind most of today's impressive AI.
- Foundation modelA big general-purpose AI model that lots of different products are built on top of.
- Generative AIAI that creates new things, such as text, images, music, video or code, rather than only sorting or analysing what already exists.