AI glossary / The basics
Natural language processing
The field of getting computers to understand and produce human language.
More words in The basics
- Recommendation systemAI that suggests what you might like next, such as films on Netflix or products on Amazon. Probably the AI you use most without noticing.
- SuperintelligenceA hypothetical AI far smarter than humans at nearly everything. It doesn't exist.
- Turing testA classic test of whether a machine can pass as human in conversation. Once a milestone, now seen as a weak measure of intelligence.
- AGIArtificial general intelligence. A still-hypothetical AI that could do any thinking task as well as a person. People disagree on how close it is, or what would count.
- AI assistantA chatbot built to help with everyday tasks: answering questions, writing, planning, summarising. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot are all AI assistants.