Artificial intelligence, explained simply

Artificial intelligence has gone from research labs to your phone in a few years, but how it works is rarely explained plainly. A large language model doesn't look answers up; it predicts the next word based on patterns learned from huge amounts of text. A neural network isn't a digital brain; it's layers of simple maths whose numbers are nudged, millions of times, until the outputs get better. Know.it's AI lessons animate those ideas step by step, so you understand what these systems can and can't do.

This page collects our free AI explainers: the difference between AI, machine learning and deep learning; how neural networks train; how LLMs such as ChatGPT generate text; computer vision and speech recognition; prompt engineering and AI agents; and the bigger questions around artificial general intelligence. Comparisons untangle the terms people use interchangeably.

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