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1.1 What AI Is and Is Not
Read by Jack. Pressing play on a video in the library loads YouTube’s player, and YouTube counts that play.What AI is, where you already use it, and what it cannot know about you.
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What is AI?
AI stands for artificial intelligence. You may already use it when your phone fixes a spelling mistake, your email filters out junk mail, or your map app picks a route.
Tools such as ChatGPT and Claude are a newer kind of AI. They learned patterns from a very large amount of writing. These patterns include how people answer questions, write emails, and connect ideas.
When you ask a question, the AI uses those patterns to write an answer. The answer can be useful, but it can also be wrong.
AI is not a person. It does not have feelings. It does not know about your life unless you give it that information.
Next: why AI sometimes gets things wrong.