Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of
AI include expert systems, natural language processing, and speech recognition and machine vision.As the hype around
AI has accelerated, vendors have been scrambling to promote how their products and services use it. Often, what they refer to as
AI is simply a component of the technology, such as machine learning.
AI requires a foundation of specialized hardware and software for writing and training machine learning algorithms. No single programming language is synonymous with AI, but Python, R, Java, C++ and Julia have features popular with
AI developers.In general,
AI systems work by ingesting large amounts of labeled training data, analyzing the data for correlations and patterns, and using these patterns to make predictions about future states. In this way, a chatbot that is fed examples of text can learn to generate lifelike exchanges with people, or an image recognition tool can learn to identify and describe objects in images by reviewing millions of examples. New, rapidly improving generative
AI techniques can create realistic text, images, music and other media.