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WTF is AI?

TechCrunch: “So what is AI, anyway? The best way to think of artificial intelligence is as software that approximates human thinking. It’s not the same, nor is it better or worse, but even a rough copy of the way a person thinks can be useful for getting things done. Just don’t mistake it for actual intelligence! AI is also called machine learning, and the terms are largely equivalent — if a little misleading. Can a machine really learn? And can intelligence really be defined, let alone artificially created? The field of AI, it turns out, is as much about the questions as it is about the answers, and as much about how we think as whether the machine does. The concepts behind today’s AI models aren’t actually new; they go back decades. But advances in the last decade have made it possible to apply those concepts at larger and larger scales, resulting in the convincing conversation of ChatGPT and eerily real art of Stable Diffusion. We’ve put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today’s AI works.

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