Decoding AI Beyond Buzzwords for Absolute Beginners 2024

Author(s): Mélony Qin (aka cloudmelon)

Originally published on Towards AI.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most fascinating areas in today’s fast-paced world. We know that artificial intelligence can seem overwhelming in many ways, especially with so many buzzwords.

In this blog, we will walk you through the basics of AI. And explain terminologies in a friendly and simpler manner with examples.

Is humanity going to change forever together with AI?

AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is a technology that aims to teach computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. This includes things like speech recognition and decision-making. And even some very human activities such as writing blogs and playing chess. Technical speaking, AI imitates human behavior by relying on machines to learn and execute tasks without explicit directions on what to output. To achieve this, AI needs massive data to train machine learning models.

Decoding AI buzzwords with real-life examples

Big data, with its high volume, velocity, and variety, often referred to as the “3Vs”, is a critical ingredient in AI. It provides the raw ingredient for machine learning models to learn from and make predictions. These large datasets include diverse information from sources like social media posts, emails, text messages, sensors in our homes, cars, public infrastructures, and even transaction… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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