What is AI?

AI is an Intelligence (something able of performing logical reasoning) created by humans. There are 2 types of AI, machine learning and True AI.

AI has many uses, such as generating text, images, videos and audio, identifying patterns and objects in images, and many more general applications.

The first AI was called "Logic Theorist", created by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon and Cliff Shaw in 1956. It was named after how it copies the way humans think and problem solve. Harvard website on Logic Theorist

Positives of AI Negatives of AI
  • Easy to use
  • Usually faster than humans
  • No human error
  • Very accessible
  • Not always correct
  • Takes away jobs
  • Indistinguishable from human work
  • Very expensive and difficult to make