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Artificial Intelligence: What is AI?

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AI is a computer program that acts smart.

It can guess, and it can pick what to do.

Many AI programs learn by looking at lots of pictures.

People tag some pictures as dogs. The AI learns from the tags.

The things an AI learns from are called training data.

In machine learning, the computer finds patterns in data.

AI helps phones get the words that people say.

An AI does not think like a person. It can make mistakes.

Check what an AI tells you.

Words to know

  • AI: smart computer
  • data: things learned from
  • mistakes: wrong answers

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