AI glossary / The basics

Chatbot

The basics, one of the 17 words to learn first

A program you talk to in everyday language by typing or speaking, and it replies.

More words in The basics

• 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.
• Large language modelAn AI trained on enormous amounts of text so it can read and write like a person. It works by predicting which words should come next.