Lesson 1: Welcome to the World of AI

You've already used Artificial Intelligence today.

Think about your morning so far. Did you unlock your phone with your face? That's a deep learning model analyzing facial geometry. Did an email go straight to your spam folder? That's a text classification algorithm. Did Google Maps route you around a traffic jam? That's an optimization algorithm powered by predictive ML.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Despite the sci-fi movies, AI is not magic, and it is not sentient. A great, non-technical definition of AI is:

"Software that can learn from experience to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence."

The AI Family Tree

You will hear three terms thrown around a lot: AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. They are nested inside each other:

Artificial Intelligence (AI): The broadest concept. Any technique that enables computers to mimic human intelligence.
Machine Learning (ML): A subset of AI. Instead of giving the computer explicit rules, we give it data and let it learn the rules.
Deep Learning (DL): A subset of ML. It uses massive "neural networks" (inspired by the human brain) to solve incredibly complex problems like understanding speech or generating images.

Exercise: AI or Not AI?Card Deck

Put your instincts to the test and see if you can tell the difference.

Card 1/6Score: 0/0

Basic Calculator

Computing 235 * 45 using hardcoded arithmetic circuits.

← press Left for Not AIpress Right for AI →

In the next lesson, we will look exactly at how this "learning" process happens under the hood!