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AI basics in 15 minutes
The nine words everything else is built from. Start here if you have never started anywhere.
Artificial intelligence
An umbrella term for computational systems using symbolic reasoning, search or learned models for tasks such as prediction, classification or content generation.
Algorithm
A set of step-by-step instructions for turning inputs into an output or action.
Model
A parameterised mathematical function learned from data that maps inputs to outputs such as labels, scores, predictions or generated text.
Data
Recorded observations, measurements or examples that people or systems can store, examine and use for a purpose.
Machine learning
A way of building computer systems that learn patterns from examples so they can make predictions, classifications or recommendations on new cases.
Training
Training is the process of adjusting a model's parameters using data or feedback to improve performance on a learning objective.
Inference
Using a trained model on new input to produce an output such as a score, category, translation or generated text.
Generative AI
A type of AI that produces new content such as text, images, audio or video from patterns learned from many examples.
Large language model
A very large text-processing model predicts likely next pieces of language from a prompt and uses that pattern-matching ability to generate or transform text.