AI Glossary / AI (artificial intelligence)

🧠 Basics

Artificial intelligence is a collective term for programs that perform tasks previously associated with human intelligence: they understand natural language, recognize images, plan, learn from examples and create new content. It's not one technology, but a whole family of methods - from simple rule-based systems to huge neural networks. Today's AI boom is driven by generative models that don't just classify data, but produce text, images, audio and video themselves. In practice, when someone says "AI" today, they usually mean large language models like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, and image and video generators.