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Artificial Intelligence

The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.

Definition

The science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making. Ranges from simple rule-based systems to modern deep learning models that can generate text, images, and code.

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Machine Learning

A branch of AI where systems learn patterns from data instead of following explicitly programmed rules.

Deep Learning

A subset of machine learning that uses neural networks with many layers (hence 'deep') to learn complex patterns from large amounts of data.

AGI

Artificial General Intelligence.

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A mathematical function applied to a neuron's output that introduces non-linearity into the network.

Adam Optimizer

An optimization algorithm that combines the best parts of two other methods — AdaGrad and RMSProp.

AI Alignment

The research field focused on making sure AI systems do what humans actually want them to do.

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