Basic Information about Artificial Intelligence for Non-Technical Readers
What you should know to start understanding AI and leverage it for business or career
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be confusing so when Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered free courses, I took some of them. One course, called Generative AI for Executives, immediately made me understand AI better. Actually, a particular infographic helped me make sense of it. In this post, I will share a similar picture that will help non-technical readers gain a basic understanding of artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT and AI Categories
The public was introduced to ChatGPT in early 2023. Technology Magazine reported that it “played a major role in bringing Generative AI to the front of the public’s mind, acting as a catalyst for transformation.” However, many people simply called it AI and it became confusing. Generative AI is a subset of the Artificial Intelligence family as shown in the picture below.
Once I saw this picture, it helped me filter out all articles about machine and deep learning and focus only on Generative AI which generates new content (text, graphics, videos etc.). AWS gave more basic information about it like it uses machine language to go through a vast amount of data, processes it based on parameters given, then generates new content.
Back and Front End
The scope of Artificial Intelligence is vast. Non-technical people like us should focus on a small subset, Generative AI, to lessen our confusion. Once I saw the infographics about it, AI made sense to me. Machine and deep learning were the backend code that made applications work. Generative AI was the front end app that I interact with online.