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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The broad field of building software that can perform tasks normally thought to need human intelligence — understanding language, recognising images, making decisions, and more.

AI is the umbrella term. Machine learning, deep learning, and large language models are all specific techniques used to build AI systems — not separate things from AI itself.
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