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What is Artificial Intelligence?

Software that mimics human abilities like understanding text, recognizing images, or making decisions.

// Explanation

AI is not a robot with feelings, and it's not going to take over the world (yet). It's software trained on enormous amounts of data to do tasks that only humans could do before: read, write, analyze, translate, generate images. There's narrow AI (does one thing well) and general AI (doesn't truly exist yet).

// Example

ChatGPT writing an email for you is AI. Your phone's autocorrect is also AI — it just doesn't get invited to conferences.

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