What Is Artificial Intelligence? An Interactive Introduction
Artificial intelligence is a family of systems that perform tasks people often associate with intelligence — recognizing patterns, ranking options, planning steps, or generating language. Not every clever-looking program is AI, and ChatGPT is only one chapter in a longer story.
What counts as AI
Some systems follow fixed rules written by people. Others learn patterns from examples. Many everyday tools sit in between. This lesson asks you to sort familiar products and notice where the label “AI” fits — and where it doesn’t.
Why the distinction matters
If you only meet AI as a chat box, it’s easy to miss vision systems, recommenders, planners, and older approaches that shaped today’s tools. Naming what a system does — and how it was built — is the first step to understanding it.