Detailed explanation
Artificial Intelligence covers all the techniques (machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision) that let a machine analyze data, reason, perceive, decide or interact in natural language. We distinguish narrow AI (task-specific) from general AI (still theoretical).
Examples
Voice assistants (Siri, Alexa)
Netflix / Amazon recommendations
Bank fraud detection
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
Frequently asked questions
Are AI and machine learning the same?
No: machine learning is a subset of AI that learns from data instead of hard-coded rules.
Related terms
Generative AI
A family of AI models that can create new content (text, image, audio, video, code) from a prompt.
Machine Learning
A branch of AI where models learn patterns from data instead of following explicit rules.
LLM (Large Language Model)
An LLM is a large language model trained on massive text corpora, capable of understanding and generating natural language across many tasks: writing, summarization, translation, code, reasoning.
Deep Learning
A subfield of machine learning using deep neural networks to learn complex representations.
Last updated: 7/15/2026