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Artificial intelligence (AI)
Written by Minh Khang
What is Artificial intelligence (AI)?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is software that does things that used to need a person thinking: reading, seeing, guessing, writing and answering.
AI is not one machine that knows everything. It is many techniques, most of which learn from lots of past data to guess what comes next. The guesses are good enough to look like understanding, and they are still sometimes wrong.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in a shop
A banking app reading the amount off a photo of a receipt, a marketplace suggesting what to buy with your cart: both are AI.
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