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AI and Machine Learning
What the word covers — all of it, not just chatbots — and what a model actually is.
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Artificial intelligence is a field of computer science. It builds software that does tasks we normally expect a person to do. Such a task might be reading a picture, choosing a song, or writing a sentence.1
AI does not mean the computer thinks like a person. The name was first used in 1955, when four scientists wrote a research proposal at Dartmouth College.2
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