AI glossary / The basics
Computer vision
AI that understands images and video, such as recognising faces, reading number plates or spotting problems on a scan.
More words in The basics
- 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.
- Machine learningTeaching computers by showing them lots of examples rather than writing out every rule by hand.