What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

What is AI?

Artificial Intelligence is the field of building machines that perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — understanding language, recognizing images, making decisions, and learning from data.

Types of AI

Type	Description
Narrow AI	Does one task (today's AI)
General AI	Human-level (hypothetical)
Super AI	Beyond humans (future)

Subfields of AI

• Machine Learning — learn patterns from data.
• Deep Learning — neural networks with many layers.
• NLP — understand human language (ChatGPT).
• Computer Vision — interpret images/video.

AI in Daily Life

• Voice assistants (Siri, Alexa).
• Recommendations (YouTube, Netflix).
• Chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude).
• Self-driving cars.

FAQs

AI vs Machine Learning?

ML is a subset of AI — the part that learns from data. More in our AI guides.

Will AI take jobs?

It will automate some tasks and create new roles — the key is adapting and learning AI skills.