Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is a term that we’ve been hearing a lot about in recent years – but what exactly is it? I wish there was a straightforward answer, but the short version is it’s become a buzzword for clever software trained on large sets of data to create algorithms with varied uses.
The term AI is a broad church for many different programs – from General AI, used in OpenAI’s ChatGPT to mimic human-like text and problem-solving, to Narrow AI, for tasks such as a camera’s facial recognition or autofocus algorithms. Then there’s Generative AI, found in text-to-image generators including Dall-E and Midjourney. Adobe Firefly also integrates Generative AI, using deep learning to add or remove elements from a photo or extend its parameters with lifelike results. The uncanny valley has never been closer.
