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What is artificial intelligence?
What is artificial intelligence?
Are artificial intelligence and machine learning the same?
Are artificial intelligence and machine learning the same?
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AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them
• Oct. 25, 2024, 6:46 PM ET (AP)
Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces a UK competition investigation
• Oct. 24, 2024, 12:28 PM ET (AP)
Tim Burton talks about his dread of AI as an exhibition of his work opens in London
• Oct. 24, 2024, 3:26 AM ET (AP)
ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure musicians sign AI protest letter against 'unlicensed use' of works
• Oct. 22, 2024, 6:29 PM ET (AP)
'Blade Runner 2049' producers sue Elon Musk and Tesla over AI image at robotaxi event
• Oct. 22, 2024, 11:15 AM ET (AP)
artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. Since their development in the 1940s, digital computers have been programmed to carry out very complex tasks—such as discovering proofs for mathematical theorems or playing chess—with great proficiency. Despite continuing advances in computer processing speed and memory capacity, there are as yet no programs that can match ...(100 of 5093 words)