Discover how AI systems learn from data and what that means for the information they produce.
Imagine you want to teach a computer to recognize cats. You show it thousands of cat photos. Eventually it learns what features make something a cat. That is machine learning!
Most modern AI learns through a process called machine learning. It is shown millions of examples — text, images, or data — and finds patterns. The more examples it sees, the better it gets at its task.
AI sometimes generates information that sounds confident but is completely wrong. This is called a "hallucination." Always verify important information from AI with reliable sources.
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