An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment. — Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
“Despite its name, there is nothing ‘artificial’ about this technology. It is made by humans, intended to behave like humans, and affects humans.”
— Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Stanford, "The God Mother of AI" (PBS Firing Line, 2023)
“Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several years.”
— Dr. Andrew Ng, Stanford/Coursera, “AI Educator and Researcher” (Stanford GSB Insights, 2017)
ECU's definitions related to AI may be found at the Artificial Intelligence at ECU Page
Generative AI
Definition according to ChatGPT (June 2024):
Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that aims to create new data from the training data it has been provided. Generative models learn the true data distribution of the training set so as to generate new data points with some variations. These new data points can be in any form, such as images, music, speech, or text.
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"These tools use large language models to provide bots with the data they need to reply to a prompt you have given it appropriately. For example, when ChatGPT writes a response to a prompt, it provides text based on what words came before and what is the most likely next word. Because AI uses natural language and computes so quickly, it can often seem like the chatbot is, in fact, intelligent.
The field of AI is changing at a rapid pace. We know that these generative tools help users synthesize information and create content (code, essays, art, music, etc.). However, these tools can also "hallucinate", or make up facts or sources and create biased content."
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