What is AI?
AI is short for artificial intelligence. It is a kind of computer program that learns from examples.
📌 Key points
- 🤖 AI means artificial intelligence.
- 📚 AI learns from lots of examples.
- 🔍 It finds patterns: things that look the same.
- 🛠️ People make AI. It is a tool.
- 🧠 AI does not think like a person.
- 💡 AI can help us with some jobs.
📖 Key words
- AI
- Artificial intelligence. A computer program that learns from examples.
- Artificial
- Made by people.
- Pattern
- Something that repeats or looks the same.
- Tool
- Something that helps us do a job.
✏️ Worked example
How can AI learn to spot an apple?
- People show it lots of apple pictures.
- Red apples, green apples, big ones and small ones.
- AI looks for what is the same: round, with a stalk.
- Now it can spot a new apple picture! 🍎
Remember: AI is a tool made by people. It is not magic.
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