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Pronounced "A-star". A graph traversal and pathfinding algorithm which is used in many fields of computer science due to its completeness, optimality, and optimal efficiency. abductive logic programming (ALP) A high-level knowledge-representation framework that can be used to solve problems declaratively based on abductive reasoning. It extends normal logic programming by allowing some ...
The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has brought with it a cornucopia of jargon — from "generative AI" to "synthetic data" — that can be hard to parse. An AI glossary: The words and terms to ...
A tiny person inside a sperm cell as drawn by Nicolaas Hartsoeker in 1695. Preformationism is the formerly popular theory that animals developed from miniature versions of themselves. Sperm cells were believed to contain complete preformed individuals called "animalcules". Development was therefore a matter of enlarging this into a fully formed ...
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. [1]
The AI revolution has already minted dozens of unicorns—startups valued at $1 billion before going public. Now it could create a whole new type of startup: the one-person unicorn.
Its use expanded further when Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, used the term ironically when he tweeted, "i am a stochastic parrot and so r u." [6] The term was then designated to be the 2023 AI-related Word of the Year for the American Dialect Society, even over the words "ChatGPT" and "LLM". [6] [16]
When a person submits a job application, applies for a home loan or even seeks certain medical care, there’s a chance that an AI system or algorithm is scoring or assessing them like it did Louis.
If everyone has AI powers, then there's not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower." [ 116 ] Musk and Altman's counterintuitive strategy—that of trying to reduce the potential harm of AI by giving everyone access to it—is controversial among those concerned with existential risk from AI.