AI Glossary Term

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Definition

The broad field of building systems that perform tasks requiring pattern recognition, reasoning, language, or decision-making.

Related terms

AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.
ReAct
A prompting pattern that interleaves reasoning steps with tool-use actions to solve tasks more reliably.
AI Alignment
The work of making AI systems behave according to human intentions, values, and safety constraints.
AI Safety
A field focused on reducing harmful behavior, failures, and misuse risks in AI systems.
GSM8K
A benchmark of grade-school math word problems used to evaluate step-by-step reasoning in language models.
AI Act
The European Union's risk-based regulatory framework for AI systems and providers.

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