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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

A useful way to see the hierarchy is:

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2. How do these systems learn?

These are not model types. They describe how the learning signal is constructed—in other words, where the supervision comes from.

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3. What changes during training

Knowing where the learning signal comes from (supervised / self-supervised / RL) is not enough.