Artificial intelligence is software that does tasks that usually need human thinking: understanding language, recognising images, writing text or preparing decisions.
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Example
Your phone recognises faces in photos and groups them by person.
For pros
AI is an umbrella term. Today it mostly means machine learning: systems learn patterns from data instead of fixed rules. The EU AI Act has its own legal definition of an AI system.
