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What is AI?

What Artificial Intelligence is, how it works and how it evolved: from heuristics and Machine Learning to neural networks and foundation models.

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The ideas to retain

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1. The General Framework: AI, ML, DL and GenAI

An effective way to visualize the hierarchy is the following:

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2. How do these systems learn?

These are not types of models, but different ways of constructing the learning signal: in other words, what kind of teacher we use.

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3. How these systems are adjusted

Knowing where the signal that makes a system learn comes from (supervised / self-supervised / RL) is not enough.