Artificial Intelligence
How machines are learning to do things that used to require a human.
Generative AI
A very well-read autocomplete that learned to write essays, paint pictures, and occasionally make things up with a straight face.
Large Language Models
A technology that learned to write, argue, and code by doing nothing but guessing the next word, over and over, billions of times.
AI Ethics and Bias
An AI hiring tool taught itself to penalize resumes hinting at being a woman, and no programmer asked it to. It just learned from biased history.
Computer Vision
Teaching a computer to see turned out to be much harder than teaching it to play chess, and much more useful.
Neural Networks
Neural networks loosely mimic the brain and can give accurate answers that even researchers struggle to fully explain.
Machine Learning Basics
Software that gets better at a task not because a programmer rewrote its rules, but because it saw enough examples to figure out the pattern itself.
Self-Driving Cars
A technology where the hardest problems aren't highway driving, but figuring out what a confused pedestrian is about to do next.