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“Artificial intelligence (AI) is the design, implementation, and use of programs, machines, and systems that exhibit human intelligence, with its most important activities being knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning. Artificial intelligence encompasses a number of important subareas, including voice recognition, image identification, natural language processing, expert systems, neural networks, planning, robotics, and intelligent agents.” (Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science).
“Generative artificial intelligence is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can make content such as audio, images, text, and videos. It involves algorithms such as ChatGPT, a chatbot that can produce essays, poetry, and other content requested by a user, and DALL-E, which generates art.” (Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science).
Artificial intelligence is used across all industries and academic subjects. The term is used to describe everything from finding the best route on Apple and Google Maps, self-driving cars, algorithms to display a list in a certain order on a website or in a social media app, and facial recognition software to unlock a smartphone. It is part of our everyday lives, at work, in school and at home.